Lotus has an enviable heritage of producing very competitive racing cars

Lotus Motorsport has unveiled its new Lotus Evora Cup, a racer designed for a new ‘one-make’ pan-European Evora Cup race series later this year.

The car has been designed to offer a level of performance that would make it even competitive in GT4 racing. Claudio Berro, Director of Motorsport at Group Lotus plc stated, “Lotus has an enviable heritage of producing very competitive racing cars and we wish to continue this heritage with the Evora Cup race car. The company started by creating world beating racing cars and this is evident from the design of Lotus cars as the production cars have many racing car design features and perform exceptionally well on track.”

The Lotus Evora Cup, which was on show during the Autosport International Racing Car Show at the Birmingham NEC, gets a beefy 4.0 litres and dry-sump version of its V6 Toyota engine, delivering over 400BHP. The Evora has a mid-engine layout, high-tech, super-stiff extruded and bonded aluminium chassis and double wishbone suspension all round. All luxuries have been stripped from the car, saving  200 kgs in the process and lowering the total weight to around 1200kgs, giving the car a healthy power to weight ratio of 1:3.

Dallara Italy has introduced the necessary aerodynamic modifications in order to increase down force and improve the cooling performance. The mid mounted engine is mated to a six speed sequential  gearbox and will come with adjustable motor sport dampers and six piston front brake callipers, with two piece aluminium belled brake discs.

The car also has an electrical cut off, fire extinguisher, traction control and is designed to have all the relevant FIA compatible motor sport equipment necessary to race.