2000 Racing Season - Lotus X180R

Speedvision World Challenge GT Series

Elliot Forbes-Robinson's X180R #55 can be seen behind Peter Cunningham's E36 BMW at the first-ever standing start for the World Challenge GT Championship during the season opener at Charlotte on March 31, 2000. (Credit: RealTime Racing)

LotuSport sold three of the X180R IMSA to Bruce Morton’s Move-It Motorsports team, who planned on entering them in the 2000 Speedvision GT World Challenge series with Elliot-Forbes Robinson and Butch Leizinger as drivers. Unfortunately, the Move-It Motorsports team was only able to fully compete in the Charlotte opener due to lack of funding. A disappointing finish for the team, however Raël raced two more races, with Forbes-Robinson racing one more time at Texas Motor speedway to finish the season with 26 points and 31st place overall in the series standings.

DateRaceNo.VINDriverEntrantGridResultNotes
Mar 31, 2000Charlotte55Elliot Forbes-RobinsonMove-It Motorsports10th9thyellow highlights; qualified 1:22.020, 98.756 MPH
Mar 31, 2000Charlotte95Butch LietzingerMove-It Motorsports12th31stDNF (17 laps); qualified 1:22.274, 98.451 MPH
Mar 31, 2000Charlotte65“Raël” (Claude Vorilhon)Move-It Motorsports / UFOland29th32ndred highights; DNF (15 laps); qualified 1:27.457, 92.616 MPH
May 21, 2000Mosport65“Raël”Move-It Motorsports / UFOland31st18thgreen front splitter decal, but mirror was still red; “Rael” decal on hood
May 27, 2000Lime Rock65“Raël”Move-It Motorsports / UFOland37th22nd
Sep 3, 2000Texas Motor Speedway55Elliot Forbes-RobinsonMove-It Motorsports16th16th
Raël passes Matt Drendel's #54 355 Challenge car at the 2000 Mosport World Challenge GT race, with Raël ending up 18th and Drendel 19th. Interestingly, years earlier Matt Drendel was the original owner of X180R #60241 after being sold as a LCU demo. (Credit: zoompics.com)

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