Classic Team Lotus

Team Lotus Type 78

First ground effect car. Sidepod profile created Venturi profile with track, skirts acting as seals to create low pressure area under sidepods. Oil tank between engine and gearbox. Won 7 Grands Prix from 1977 to 1978.

 

Type No. I.D. Title Status
78 1 1 sold Works
  2 2 sold Works
  3 3 TL Works
  4 4 sold Works
  5  '3' sold Works

News
49R1 is relaunched at Hethel
49R1 is relaunched at Hethel

The Lotus Type 49 was built and unveiled at Hethel, the home of Lotus, on May 23rd, 1967. Fity-nine years after the historic day Colin Chapman famously drove the Type 49 down the runway at Hethel and ...

CTL saddened by the passing of George Barber
CTL saddened by the passing of George Barber

Classic Team Lotus is deeply saddened by the news that George Barber has died. Mr Barber established the Barber Motorsports Park in Birmingham, Alabama; a world class centre of automotive endeavour on...

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