New Lotus celebrates Jim Clark anniversary

In tribute to Clark’s achievements on the 40th anniversary of his death at Hockenheim in 1968, Lotus is producing the Clark Type 25 Elise SC, with a donation for each of the limited edition of the 25 £36,000 cars to be offered for sale in the UK going to the Jim Clark memorial fund (25 being the Type number of Clark’s 1963 Lotus F1 car and his number of F1 wins. Clark won the F1 World Championship twice for Team Lotus in 1963 and in 1965. In total, he won 25 Grand Prix races and was the first Briton to win the Indianapolis 500. Lotus said the 148mph Clark Type 25 Elise SC drew upon many styling cues from Clark’s 1963 Type 25 Formula 1 car. With a removable hard top as standard, it’s finished in British Racing Green with a yellow stripe along the centre and features high performance Lotus Sport wheels, finished in an historic black and silver design. The interior, inspired by the Team Lotus Formula 1 cars of the era, has black leather sports seats trimmed with red leather and is finished off with a retro wooden gear knob. The Elise SC is the most powerful production Elise ever produced, with a 1.8 litre non-intercooled, supercharged engine and intelligent cam switching technology, enabling the engine to switch to the high performance cam anywhere between 4000 and 6200 rpm.