Lotus 30
The Lotus 30 was a racing sports car, which was developed in 1964 at Lotus.
Development history and technology
The Lotus 30 is an isolated phenomenon in the history of British race car builder and motorsport teams. The car is the only Lotus according to the technical regulations of the group 7 These regulations gave the designers a lot of technical freedoms. There was virtually unlimited possibilities with displacement, power, turbochargers, and the pressure of the car to experiment. In 1964, the race of the British, U.S. and Canadian Sports Car Championship was extended by Group 7 rules. As for Colin Chapman in the 1960s, racing cars ever meant Vehicle Sales, Chapman and Martin Wade developed the Lotus 30
The race car had a tubular frame, which was covered with a fiberglass body. When Lotus was decided to use a 4.7-liter V8 engine as the engine, the Ford himself used in the GT40. The engine was big and heavy for Lotus ratios and was installed behind the driver's seat. The car had disc brakes on all four wheels and a ZF 5 -speed gearbox.
The car was fast, which was not surprising given the strong Ford engine, but was yet delicate and feared among drivers, as repeatedly broke the suspensions.
Racing history
1964
The first use of a Lotus 30, it was on 11 April 1964 Oulton Park. Jim Clark won a championship round for the British sports car championship. After a second place overall by Clark at the Championship race in Aintree, the Scot won in May at a no scoring championship sports car races at Mallory Park. The only victory in a race in the United States celebrated the American Bill Krause at an SCCA race at Laguna Seca.
1965
1965 variety of chassis with very many races has been used by different teams. Wins: Homer Rader, in a race in Green Valley; Jos van Altena at the fourth scoring run for the South African Sports Car Championship; Jim Clark for the first competition race of the British Sports Car Championship at Silverstone; Jos of Altena in Killarney; Newton Davis at the SCCA race at Lime Rock; Homer Rader at SCCA races in the U.S. Stuttgart; Bob Challman the SCCA race at Santa Barbara; Leroy Melcher at the SCCA race at Kingsville and Jerry Crawford at the SCCA race at Thompson.
1966 - 1973
By 1973 Lotus 30 were in international and national sports car racing at the start and have been used in recent years, especially in club races.