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The theme of the 2012 Goodwood Festival of Speed

The 2012 Autocar Festival of Speed will honour the Lotus marque with the main ?Central Feature? installation, displayed prominently outside Goodwood House.

Goodwood will celebrate this much-loved British brand in an exciting amount of time in the marque?s history, as Lotus is couple of years towards a five-year plan together with the goal of giving back the marque to the original status alongside other prestigious performance car manufacturers. The program includes the whole new range, the first of that is to be the return of the iconic Esprit in 2013 (concept car shown below).

It?s never assume all about aiming to the future for Lotus though, many of organization is its heritage and Lotus will enjoy a vast array of significant anniversaries in 2012, including Six decades because first Lotus company was founded by Colin Chapman in 1952, four years once the incomparable engineer had built his first vehicle - the Mark 1 trials car - in the old stable behind his parent?s Railway Hotel in Hornsey, North London.

Buy also sees the 50th anniversary of the ground-breaking Lotus Elan sportscar, 40 years considering that the iconic Esprit supercar concept was initially revealed by Giugiaro, 35 years for the reason that innovative Lotus 78 ground effect Formula 1 car competed and 18 years since cyclist Chris Boardman won a gold medal for Britain inside 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympics, riding the popular Type 108 bicycle designed by Lotus.

The enviable global reputation that Lotus enjoys today grew out of Chapman?s unparalleled technical ingenuity to dominate all levels of motor sport, from club racing to Formula 1, to produce a permanent legacy. To this point Lotus is now onto win 13 Formula 1 World Championships (six drivers, and 7 constructors titles), including a spectacular collection of these victorious F1 cars are going to be at Goodwood in the summertime, together with an amazing selection of Lotus Indy cars, saloons, sports and road cars, all forming a key attraction in the 2012 Autocar Festival of Speed. A large amount of current and ex-works Lotus drivers may also be required to appear at Goodwood.

Full details of the Lotus vehicle and driver line-up, coupled with further news around the main Lotus Central Feature installation, is going to be revealed above the coming months.