Type 49 receives Race Car of the Century award
"What is the greatest racing car of the past 100 years?" Is a question as easy to ask, as the answer is hard to find. But in this, their 100th year, Motor Sport magazine have been trying to answer that very question.
Motor Sport selected the ten candidates for readers to vote on. Our top pick from the ten and, one of the favourites we heard, was of course the Type 49. On July 1st our two-time Monaco winning chassis 49B-R10 headed out to the awards ceremony at the Dorchester Hotel in London where Clive, Bob Dance (surely Chief Mechanic of the Century) and the Type 49 were “in the House” ready for the Motor Sport - Race Car of the Century awards. Where we were pleased to hear...
...and the winner of Race car of the Century is..... The Lotus Type 49.
Huge congratulations to Clive and Bob, who were there to collected the award.
49B R10 is now back on display at CTL and can be seen on our Official Tours held every second Saturday of the month. You can book on the CTL website here
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