Brickyard Legends Team present :
Lotus Esprit S1 group5
Richard Jenvey made a name for himself driving modified sports cars including a supercharged MG Midget in ’73 and a Lotus Elan from ’74 to ’75 winning the 1975 Modsports Championship. With a group of enthusiastic amateurs he set about building his Group 5 Lotus Esprit in 1978. The team retained most of the original Lotus backbone chassis and built a monocoque around it effectively turning the Lotus backbone chassis into a passenger. The original body shell was then sold on which helped cover "a fair fraction" of the costs of building the car which ended up right on the minimum weight limit.
In 1979, Richard Jenvey announced that he would be competing in the 2 litre / 122 cui division of the Group 5 World Manufacturers championship. The Polaroof Morfe Racing Lotus Esprit first appeared at the Dijon 6 hours in April 1979 qualifying first in class ahead of a Fiat X1/9 and BMW 320i, but was the first of the three to retire from the race with engine maladies. At Silverstone the Esprit qualified 3rd in class behind the debuting Lancia Beta Montecarlo turbo and an older BMW 320i. During the race Richard and David Mercer only had to finish to win the class but distributor problems saw the car retire. Over the following two years Richards Lotus made at least seven further starts in World Championship and German Championship events recording a best 7th place finish in the 1981 German Championship round at Zolder.
Richard and Lawrie Hickman, who co drove Richards Lotus in 1981 agree that the Esprit was fabulous to drive but was underpowered against the factory turbocharged Group 5 cars running in the same class from Lancia, BMW and Ford which had over 400 hp available!
- the mod mainly represents R. Jenvey's Lotus Esprit S1
- the mod is linked to GTC-TC-76 class and the BMW CSL.
Credits :
- papag21 : 3d, mapping, file structure, template, skins
- rallymaster : physics
- mildrew : sounds
- greg7 : testing
- B8man : testing
- ga2jo : testing
- Ney.Dias : testing
Installation instructions:
- extract folder to X:/GTL/
Enjoy
