Lotus 24

The Lotus 24 was a Formula 1 racing car, which was developed by Lotus in 1962 and used by several private teams until 1964.

The Lotus 24 was an improved Lotus 21 with a tube frame for the new 1.5 -liter engine of Climax basically. It soon turned out that the car for Lotus - was only an interim solution - like his predecessors. Even at the Grand Prix of the Netherlands in the same year came the Lotus 25, which would revolutionize the formula.

The front end of the 24 was bulky and wide. 12 units were built by Lotus, of which seven had the Climax FWMV V8 engine and five of the V8 engine of BRM. , Where towered the eight exhaust pipes, four on each side, almost perpendicular from the rear of the car. Also in the workshop of Reginald Parnell Lotus 24 were completed under license.

Was the 24 for the factory team only a stopgap measure, the private teams attacked well back on the wagon. Rob Walker, the UDT Laystall team and the new team of Jack Brabham put the 24 partially to 1964 in a World Cup. Racer Chris Amon to Rodger Ward drove the Lotus 24, including world champions such as Graham and Phil Hill, who later became team owner Roger Penske, the world motorcycle champion Mike Hailwood and the Frenchman Maurice Trintignant, who as early as 1950 his first world championship race went.