Esprit X180R References

Articles

• “Escort Surprise!", SCCA SportsCar Magazine, June 1990
• “A Star Among the Stripes”, Autocar & Motor, Sep 12 1990
• “Riding with Miles”, John Miles, *Autocar & Motor, Sep 12 1990
• “Street-Legal Race Cars”, Autoweek, September 17, 1990
• “Lotus Esprit SE Blooms as X180R”, Autoweek, March 4, 1991
• “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
• “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
• **“The Rebirth of the LotuSport Team”, Lotus ReMarque, August 2005
• “Corps de Esprit - Lotus”, Hemming’s Sports & Exotic, December 2009

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

Similar Contempory Cars

• 1992 Porsche 911 Turbo S2 (USA Only) - 20 IMSA homologation cars built to race directly against the Lotus X180R
• 1992-93 Porsche Carrera Cup – 45 built; converted before sale to customer back to road cars due to cancelled racing series
• 1992 Porsche 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