Snetterton/UK. Classic Team Lotus, in association with Lotus Cars, Lotus Racing, Lotus on Track and Motorsport Vision, present an unprecedented bonanza of Team Lotus history, Lotus sports cars, Formula One and ultra competitive racing action on Sunday June 20th.

Thanks to the generous support of owners worldwide, the Classic Team Lotus Festival at Snetterton on Sunday 20th June presents the first ever gathering of one of every Team Lotus F1 car.

For just one amazing day, The Team Lotus Pavilion will hold the greatest collection of Team Lotus racing cars ever assembled. From the 1958 type 12 through to the 1994 Type 109, there will be 33 Team Lotus F1 design types on view. These precious cars will be lined up in grid formation undercover, so that visitors can walk through the grid to experience a unique close-up encounter with famous racing machinery at the cutting edge of the evolution of F1 car design.

Clive Chapman, son of Lotus founder Colin Chapman and Managing Director of Classic Team Lotus comments: „We set about bringing the cars together for this unprecedented event when we realised that we could make a full grid of Team Lotus F1 design types. Cars are coming from all over the world – many from Europe, and the 109 is travelling from the Barber Museum in the USA. Owners from Japan and Australia are participating as well.‟

During the lunchbreak at midday the cars will be wheeled through the crowds and out onto the circuit grid, lined up in five abreast formation, for an aerial photograph recording the unique gathering. This special moment can be witnessed by the public from the pitwall, during the pit lane walkabout.

Between 2.00pm and 3.30pm, the race programme will be halted and the Team Lotus Pavilion will come alive, with most of the F1 cars being demonstrated on track. They will be fired up in the public area of the paddock, and then driven out in batches to make four lap runs.Famous guest drivers will include the current Lotus F1 Racing drivers and original Team Lotus Works drivers. As impressive as the Team Lotus grid will be, there is nothing to match the awesome cacophony of these World Championship winning F1 cars and their mechanical soundtrack.

The Classic Team Lotus Festival will feature the Team Lotus Trio, three of the most important Jim Clark Team Lotus racing cars, together for the first and probably the only time; the 1963 F1 World Championship winning Lotus type 25, the 1965 Tasman Championship winning type 32B and the 1967 Dutch Grand Prix winning Lotus type 49.”Classic Team Lotus is privileged to have in its care these fantastic cars, on behalf of collectors around the world” says Clive Chapman. “I am proud to be able to gather them together at this special event, before they return to their respective homes.”

The Lotus type 25 chassis R4 is owned by Australian John Bowers, and is just back from the Grand Prix De Monaco Historique. The 1963 World Championship consisted of 10 Grand Prix; Jim Clark raced chassis R4 in all of them, winning seven to become World Champion.

The Lotus type 32B is a unique car, which was built specifically to win the 1965 Tasman Championship, which was a popular and prestigious series of races in Australia and New Zealand during the Antipodean summer. Jimmy took 13 starts in the car, winning an amazing nine times, on his way to dominating the Championship and adding to his reputation around the World as the greatest driver of his generation.

The Team Lotus type 49 chassis R2 completes the Team Lotus Trio. Most famously Jimmy drove this car to victory in the 1967 Dutch GP, on the debut of the type 49 and its amazing Ford Cosworth DFV engine. Clark went on to score his fourth British GP 8 win and a famous USGP victory, all in chassis R2. The car raced in F1 until 1969, being developed along the way and ending up in Gold Leaf colours. In 2009, after 40 years „away‟, American owner Chris MacAllister charged Classic Team Lotus with restoring 49/R2 to its 1967 USGP specification.

Members of the Clark family will be attending the festival, as guests of Classic Team Lotus.

Sir Stirling Moss’s son Elliott celebrates the 50th Anniversary of his father’s 1960 Monaco victory; the first Grand Prix win for the Lotus marque

Sir Stirling Moss scored a heroic victory at Monaco in 1960, racing his privately entered Lotus type 18 and seeing off the might of Ferrari and reigning World Champion Jack Brabham during the three hour-long race. Sir Stirling‟s sublime talent won the day in this „David versus Goliath‟ triumph at the greatest Grand Prix of them all.

In celebration of this historic anniversary, Elliott Moss (Stirling‟s son) will drive a Lotus type 18 on track, in public for the first time.

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