Lotus Elise GT1 1997

[McLareN]

Quite a beast...

Lotus Elise GT1 #1:

[McLareN]

Lotus Elise GT1 #2:

[McLareN]

Lotus Elise GT1 #3:

[Cotterik]

so strange its almost a tvr

[Zytek_Fan]

It looks like the Motorsport Elise on GT4

[coolieman1220]

looks bigger in all dimensions than a regular elise. does it weigh more or less? if thats possible.

[dydzi]

looks bigger in all dimensions than a regular elise. does it weigh more or less? if thats possible.

waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay less
it's sucha cool car, it's so uncompromising, i really like it, best lotus of it's times :)

[Jack_Bauer]

looks bigger in all dimensions than a regular elise. does it weigh more or less? if thats possible.

It weighs significantly more than the Mk1 Elise on which it is suposed to be based. It weighs around 950Kg compared to less than 800kg for the original Elise. That extra bulk can be accounted for by the fact that it's bigger in all dimensions and has a big 3.5 litre V8 with a pair of huge turbos bolted on.

The extra weight is more than compensated for by the 575bhp in the back though! ;)

[Matra et Alpine]

The extra weight is more than compensated for by the 575bhp in the back though! ;)
Until those corners come up :D

[Jack_Bauer]

Until those corners come up :D

Well I guess that would be catered for by the sizeable downforce, far wider track, and sticky tyres more than TWICE as wide as those of an original 'Liz. :D

[ScionDriver]

Is it CF? Only part CF?

[Sweeney921]

Driving that thing must be incredibly hard, but it probably puts up unbelievable numbers.

[F1_Master]

Awesome shots.
Anyone got a chance to run this thing in PGR3?

[092326001]

awesome car

[:Exige:]

Yeah ... this was at GFOS a couple of years back. Theres only 1 road going GT1 in the world ... this one used to be a bright shade of blue. Recently they modified it and upped the boost to create over 700bhp. Read an article about it in Evo a long time ago. Apparently its one of the hardest cars to get into ... not surprising :)

[Vaigra]

Yeah ... this was at GFOS a couple of years back. Theres only 1 road going GT1 in the world ... this one used to be a bright shade of blue. Recently they modified it and upped the boost to create over 700bhp. Read an article about it in Evo a long time ago. Apparently its one of the hardest cars to get into ... not surprising :) I tried getting into a Mosler a couple of weeks ago at the MPH show..now THAt was difficult! :p

[carreragt10]

I really love this Elise GT1 road car of the`90s!!!


Thank you very much for the pics McLareN :cool:

[250 GTO]

Nice find MclareN!

[pterps]

I saw this Elise last year in France:

http://img225.exs.cx/img225/7879/img4489aan1xf.th.jpg (http://img225.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img225&image=img4489aan1xf.jpg)

[Egg Nog]

100% pure unadultered wickedness.

[drakkie]

100% pure unadultered wickedness.

not everything has to be sensible :D

[Matra et Alpine]

not everything has to be sensible :D
Looks THE most sensible thing to me.
Sell the house and invest the kids heritage in a camper van, trailer and track elise and then spend the rest of your life spending the money going from track to track !

Where is there NOT sense in that ?????

:D :D :D dream :D :D :D

[Egg Nog]

Looks THE most sensible thing to me.
Sell the house and invest the kids heritage in a camper van, trailer and track elise and then spend the rest of your life spending the money going from track to track !

Where is there NOT sense in that ?????

:D :D :D dream :D :D :D

You're an ideas man :)

[carreragt10]

Lotus Elise GT1

[nickgent21]

few more

[2ndclasscitizen]

Thanks for the article! It was a pretty good read

[Rijoh]

Is there really only one GT1? They painted it a lot then:

[acemotorsport]

not its the only road going gt1 so it can race in FIA GT those other cars are the racing versions

[netburner]

The yellow Elise GT1 in the last picture in this thread was converted to a road-going version, so there are two "road-cars".

[acemotorsport]

yes but its not an original road going car

[netburner]

Another GT1 shot

[Sledgehammer]

Another GT1 shot

Photo doesnt seem to be working for me.:confused:

[F1GTRUeno]

The yellow Elise GT1 in the last picture in this thread was converted to a road-going version, so there are two "road-cars".

No that one is still a racing car.

The one that was converted to road-going spec was a spare chassis they built after the original run. It ran the yellow/black Franck Muller livery for a while but it's now green and yellow, and pretty much constantly for sale (though apparently not right now)

Here are links to expired listings for it.

Lotus Elise GT1 (Type 115) 1997 FIA Race Car For Sale on Car And Classic UK (http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C98056)

Classic 1997 Lotus Elise GT1 (Type 115) for sale, Classic car sales
(http://www.classic-car-directory.com/classifieds/detail.aspx?ad=14481&d=26)

Speedmaster (http://www.classicdriver.de/uk/find/4100_dealers2_results.asp?next=4100_dealers2_resul ts.asp&whatbutton.x=0&coopid=0&action=simple_search&lmanufacturer=*&lcurrency=2&dealerid=11549&sorderby=tblManufacturers.sName%2C+tblModels.sMode l&bsubmit=true&lmodelflag=*&bshowstock=True&lCarID=1786457)

The last link says it was sold on 17.01.2012 so very recently indeed.

Incidentally one of the original Franck Muller cars was for sale recently as well.

http://www.classicdriver.de/fr/find/4100_results.asp?sorderby=dtSubmitDate&fc=13&action=simple_search&lmanufacturer=*&next=4100_results.asp&bsubmit=true&lmostrecent=200&lCarID=1831809

Sold 17.08.2011.

By Carugati in Geneva, who if you look on their site have one of the Thai sponsored cars for sale.

Carugati Automobiles SA (http://www.carugati.ch/?lg=en&pg=cars&sel=m624)


Perhaps they're being bought with the idea of being raced in the Blancpain Revival Series next year?

[cyberespion]

Interested in the Elise GT1 subject, I'm looking for the chassis number runned by the team GT1 Lotus Racing.