Lotus Elan Type 26R Racing on Hillclimb: Accelerations & 1.6 Lotus-Ford Twin Cam Engine Sound!

This brief video is fully focused on a Lotus Elan Type 26R (or simply called Elan 26R) I recorded during the 2020 Bologna-Raticosa historic hillclimb in Italy.
The Elan was a tiny, lightweight road car that brought all of designer Colin Chapman’s racing lessons to the street and it was Lotus's first road car to use a steel backbone chassis with a fibreglass body. It was introduced in 1962 and it was immediately, widely admired and praised by customers and reviewers, noted for its exceptional handling, roadholding, steering, acceleration, braking and comfort. But it was also Lotus's first car that wasn't designed with racing in mind.

Nevertheless, because owners assumed that all Lotus cars were designed for racing, it soon found its way onto the track with privateers modifying them to make them more focused for track use. But the results showed that the road-legal Elan was unsuitable for racing. Lotus resisted modifying the car to make it more suitable for racing but eventually created a racing version of the Elan, called Type 26R and which was offered at £1995 in kit form. During the 1964 season the Elan 26R was fully homologated. The completed racing car weighed in at around 600 kg. It was powered by a 1,558 cc DOHC four-cylinder engine (called "Lotus TwinCam" which was based on the Ford Kent Pre-Crossflow four-cylinder 1,498 cc engine) tuned by Cosworth and which was able to produce more than 160hp. The little cars turned out to be giant killers, and Jim Clark, Jackie Stewart and Sir John Whitmore were very successful racing them.

Watch and hear it in action on the 6.2 kilometer hillclimb course driven by Matteo Lupi Grassi.

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- Camcorder: Canon Legria HF G30 & GX10 + Canon DM-100 Microphone, Sony AX-53 + Audio Technica Microphone
- Event: 32nd Bologna - Raticosa 2020
- Where: Pianoro Vecchio, Italy

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