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Christopher Bruce2012-03-01 19:21:15

First Images of Lotus LMP2 Coupe Released

 
 
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First Image of Lotus LMP2 Car Released

The first images of the Judd-engined Lotus LMP2 car have been released by chassis builder Lola's Twitter account. As you can see, the car uses a coupe chassis and will have its race debut at the 12 Hours of Sebring on March 17. 

To make things clear, Lola is building one of its B12/80 chassis for the German Kodewa team that will be sponsored by Lotus. There will be two other B12/80 coupes also competing in the 12 Hours of Sebring both of which will use Nissan engines campaigned by Gulf Racing Middle East. 

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revver
So it's actually a Lotus branded Lola? Or is the body and aero a Lotus design (since the chassis is Lola)?
01.03.2012 @ 19:25
cabruce
Nope, it's all Lola with Lotus branding. As little sense as that makes.
01.03.2012 @ 20:14
mario_eb
Yep. Lotus is only sponsoring it. No Lotus Cars nor Lotus Engineering are involved in the development.
02.03.2012 @ 01:32
tiagospeedy
Basically the same thing they are doing with F1.
02.03.2012 @ 11:38
mario_eb
Exactly. It's just a marketing strategy I guess.
02.03.2012 @ 17:59
cabruce
This might be controversial, but is this better or worse than Audi putting a coupe body on the R8 prototype and calling it a Bentley for a year with the same drivers and team that had been working for...
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02.03.2012 @ 18:12
authomobilia
Still, for Bentley/Audi, it is the same mother company, so developed by in house engineers. Here it is only the stickers and the sponsoring money coming from Lotus, Lola is not in the same group. It i...
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03.03.2012 @ 14:04
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