Esprit X180R References

Articles

• “Escort Surprise!"; SCCA SportsCar Magazine; June 1990
• “A Star Among the Stripes”; Autocar & Motor; September 12, 1990
• “Riding with Miles”; John Miles; Autocar & Motor; September 12, 1990
• “Roots Rocker: Lotus Racing Return”; Cars and Car Conversions; Dec 1990
• “Street-Legal Race Cars”; Autoweek; September 17, 1990
• “Lotus Esprit SE Blooms as X180R”; Autoweek; March 4, 1991
• Esprit Explosive, “Life in the Fast Lane - The X180R”, The Chapman Report (Golden Gate Lotus Club),;Kiyoshi Hamai; September 1991
• ”??"; Exotic Cars Quarterly, vol 2, no 1?; 1991(?); p74-80
• Arrow (IMSA), Sept 1992
• “X Racer”; Sports Car International; October 1991
• “Season Opens for LotuSport”; The Chapman Report; March 1992
• “Still hectic, after all these years”; Motorsport; July 1992
• “LotuSport Races at Home”**; The Lotus Letter; April 1993
• Arrow (IMSA); July 1994
• *“The Rebirth of the LotuSport Team”, Lotus ReMarque, August 2005
• “Corps de Esprit - Lotus”, Hemming’s Sports & Exotic, December 2009
• “The best solution when your car company is failing? Go racing"*, Classic Motorsports; January 2007; B.S.Levy

Factory Documents

• Lotus Esprit X180-R Build Parts List (Lotus Engineering)
• Lotus X180R Owner’s Manual Supplement
• Internal 1990 European Lotus importer meeting presentation binder

LotuSport Race Reports

• LotuSport Race Report #1 (May 1993)
• LotuSport Race Report #2 (June 1993)
• LotuSport Race Report #3 (Late July 1993)
• LotuSport Race Report #4 (Very Late July 1993)
• LotuSport Race Report #5 (September 1993)
• LotuSport Race Report #6 (December 1993)

Press Releases

• Lotus Makes Successful Comeback - Racing in America, 1990 (LCU)
• Race-Winning Esprit Stars on Lotus Motor Show Stand, Sep 17 1990 (LCGB)
• Doc Bundy Wins Driver’s Championship, 1992 (LCGB)
• Lotus Esprit Sport 300, Sep 1993 (LCGB)
• IMSA Bridgestone Motorsport Press Kit

Books

• The Lotus Book (Third Edition), William Taylor, 2005
• Lotus Esprit: The Complete Story, Jeremy Walton, 1996
• Lotus Esprit: The Official Story, Jeremy Walton, 2006
• A Life in Car Design - Jaguar, Lotus, TVR, Oliver Winterbottom, 2017

See Also

• LotuSport Racing Team (Facebook)
• Yesteryear Motorsports Racing (Facebook)
• Lotus Forums: Finding All Sport 300 ad X180R
• Lotus Esprit World: X180R

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• **1992-93 Porsche 964 Carrera Cup **— 45 built; converted before sale to customer back to road cars due to cancelled racing series
• **1992 Porsche 964 Carrera RS N/GT Clubsport (Japan C08) **— 20 built to Group N/GT spec for cancelled Japan race series; partial conversion back to road car in Japan with FIA roll cages covered in hand stitched leather, all 20 delivered in unique colors
• **1994 Ferrari 348 GT Competizione **— 50 built + 13 race cars (11 Michelotti and 2 GTC/LM)
• 1995 Ferrari 355 Challenge — street cars converted to race cars by dealers (a few were built by the factory)
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• 1998 Lamborghini Diablo GT2 — full race car
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