The lightweight English sports car manufacturer Lotus has just released information about their ambition to take their latest creation, the Evora, and turn it into a dedicated race car complete with its own European based one make series. The Lotus Evora Cup race will be unveiled at the Autosport International car show in Birmingham, England on January 14, 2010. Powered by a race spec 4.0 Liter V8 making 400 HP and priced at £120,000 the race car makes use of an intensive amount of high performance parts and composite materials while getting rid of every component not necessary for motor sport.
The Evora Cup car will be seeing hard track duty, so aside from adding a bit more down force, the suspension and brakes have been upgraded to a set of adjustable racing dampers and a pair of six piston front brake calipers to clamp down on the oversized two piece aluminum brake discs so that the chassis never tires and the stoppers never fade. At the same time, Lotus’ engineers have put the Evora Cup car on a diet, tipping the scales at around 400 pounds less than the standard road car making it even more capable on the circuit. The racing series will consist of a number of points paying events in Europe culminating with a race at England’s famed Donington Park in October before traveling south to Italy’s Vallelunga in November with the champion taking home a £100,000 purse for their efforts.
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