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* Lotus 17 ( 1959 ): Sports racer update of the 15 — not successful
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A 1. 1L FWA straight-4, installed in a Lotus 17 sports car racing | sports car.
The Elise S2 was designed by Lotus to have 16 " front wheels and 17 " rear wheels.
Clark eventually clocked a 1: 15. 0 on lap 70 for the fastest lap of the race, and eased off from his biggest lead of 17 seconds to take the second consecutive American Grand Prix win for Team Lotus.
Berger won by 17 seconds over Brazilian driver Ayrton Senna driving a Lotus 99T.
The MacPherson strut appears to have had little influence on Chapman at this time ( although he would later use it unsuccessfully for the front suspension of his Lotus 17 ).
Chapman did use MacPherson struts for the front suspension of the Lotus 17.
On Lap 17, the Lotus slowed noticeably while entering the Atwater Tunnel, as he had lost second gear.
In 1963 / 64, Miles was the overall champion of the Autosport Veedol Sports and Saloon Championship, with 15 outright wins from 17 races, driving the Lotus Elan Sports Car.
* Dr. Mohamed Sulaiman Abdul-Malek: Mogamraat ' Seen ', Lotus, Maktab 17.
Lotus 17
The Lotus 17 was a sports car racing model built by Lotus Cars in 1959.
The Lotus 17 was Chapman's answer to the Lola Mk 1, which by late 1958, was beating the venerable ( but by then a good few years old ) Eleven with monotonous regularity.
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Lotus and 1959
Published in Tintin magazine from September 1958 to November 1959, Tintin in Tibet sent Tintin to the Himalayas in search of Chang Chong-Chen, the Chinese boy he had befriended in The Blue Lotus.
The Lotus Group of Companies was formed in 1959.
* Lotus 16 ( 1958 – 1959 ): F1 / F2 car based on the Twelve
In 1959 he drove a Lotus Elite, finishing tenth at Le Mans partnered with John Whitmore, and the ex-Bruce Halford Lister Jaguar, winning the Bo ' ness Hill Climb.
He competed in the Le Mans 24 Hour race in 1959, 1960 and 1961, finishing second in class in 1959 driving a Lotus Elite, and finishing third overall in 1960, driving an Aston Martin DBR1.
In 1959, Colin Chapman moved his fledgling Lotus group of companies, including Lotus Cars and Team Lotus from its outgrown premises at Hornsey to a purpose built facility on Delamare Road.
Success in sports car racing saw him make his Formula One debut for Team Lotus in 1959.
After a frustrating year in 1959 spent with his own Formula Two Cooper, he received an invitation to run his Lotus 18 as a second works car for 1960.
His single World Championship Formula One entry was at the 1959 British Grand Prix driving his Formula 2 Lotus 12, and he failed to qualify.
* Peel Me a Lotus, London, 1959
Lotus and ):
* Pidgin ( formerly Gaim ): supports ICQ, Yahoo !, AIM, Gtalk, MSN, IRC, XMPP, Gadu-Gadu, SILC, Meanwhile ( IBM Lotus Sametime ) and others ;
* Lotus leaf rice ( 糯米雞 lo6 mai5 gai1 ): Glutinous rice is wrapped in a lotus leaf into a triangular or rectangular shape.
* Lotus Mark I ( 1948 ): Austin 7 based car
* Lotus Mark II ( 1949 – 1950 ): Ford-powered trials car
* Lotus Mark III ( 1951 ): 750 cc formula car
* Lotus Mark IV ( 1952 ): Trials car
* Lotus Mark V ( 1952 2 ): 750 cc formula car — never built
* Lotus Mark VI ( 1953 – 1955 ): The first " production " racer — about 100 built
* Lotus Seven ( 1957 – 1970 ): Classic open sports car, a minimalist machine designed to manoeuvre a racing circuit and nothing else.
* Lotus Mark VIII ( 1954 ): sports racer
* Lotus Mark IX ( 1955 ): sports racer, based on Eight
* Lotus Mark X ( 1955 ): sports racer, a more powerful Eight
* Lotus Eleven ( 1956 – 1957 ): sports racer
* Lotus 12 ( 1956 – 1957 ): Formula Two and Formula One racecar
* Lotus 14 ( 1957 – 1963 ): First production street car — the Elite
* Lotus 15 ( 1958 ): Sports racer — successor to the Eleven
* Lotus 18 ( 1960 – 1961 ): First mid-engined Lotus single seater — Formula Junior / F2 / F1
* Lotus 19 ( 1960 – 1962 ): Mid-engined sports racer —" Monte Carlo "
* Lotus 20 ( 1961 ): Formula Junior
* Lotus 21 ( 1961 ): Formula One
* Lotus 22 ( 1962 – 1965 ): Formula Junior / F3
* Lotus 23 ( 1962 – 1966 ): Small displacement mid-engined sports racer
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