1995 Racing Season - Lotus X180R

After changes to IMSA’s rules and the loss of Lotus factory support, LotuSport team decided to shut down its racing program midway through 1995. Further, the heavy weight penalties that had cumulatively been added to the X180R by IMSA made the chassis no longer competitive.

Car No. 12 was sold to Steve Hansen, a LotuSport sponsor and driver. Two more were sold by Lotus to Bruce Morton, whose Move-It Motorsports team planned to enter them in the Speedvision GT World Challenge series with Elliott Forbes-Robinson and Butch Leitzinger as drivers; Hansen leased No. 12 to the same team, making up the three-car entry that took the start at Charlotte in 2000. Move-It was only able to contest a handful of races for lack of funding. Which two chassis Morton bought is not established — see Aftermath.

Over its final, curtailed campaign the X180R managed a single podium and a single pole position. As the program wound down, its drivers began stepping into other machinery: Andy Pilgrim moved to a 350 hp Pontiac Firebird Firehawk after the first three Supercar races, and Doc Bundy contested one last Supercar round — his final outing away from the X180R — in a Nissan 300ZX Turbo.