{"id":387,"date":"2018-06-15T16:16:02","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T19:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/werner.med.br\/w143\/?page_id=387"},"modified":"2019-12-18T18:39:03","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T21:39:03","slug":"lotus-esprit-sport-300-62-spark","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/lotus-esprit-sport-300-62-spark\/","title":{"rendered":"Lotus Esprit Sport 300 #62 – Spark"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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1994 Lotus Esprit Sport 300<\/strong> 
Pilots: R. Piper, P. Hardman, O. Iacobelli 
Team: Lotus Sport \/ Chamberlain Engineering<\/em> 
Race: DNF (class GT2) at Le Mans in 1994 
Spark - S0447 (resin) <\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Published 06\/18\/17<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Introduced in 1992, the Esprit Sport 300 was  as a stripped-out lighter version of the Esprit Turbo. Based on Lotus’s IMSA racing X180R, it used the Lotus 910S engine. The 910S was an inline-4 cylinders with 2174 cm\u00b3, 16 valves and DOHC. Turbocharged by a Garrett T3\/T4 unit and inter-cooled, it delivered 302 hp. In road trim only 64 cars were produced, and it wasn\u2019t a commercial success. Though it was a pretty quick car (comparable to the Porsche Turbo of the time), the hefty price tag combined with a harsh ride didn\u2019t make the car very popular.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Honest but admittedly kind-of too boring livery. Well, does look like a BP sponsored car. Or perhaps Australian?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
For the 24 Heures du Mans<\/em> of 1994 Lotus had two works cars in the race, both Esprit. However, both failed to finish – Esprit Sport #62<\/a> here was out in the 59th lap due to an accident. I guess this falls into the oddball category of models, but a nice one. An older mold from Spark – paint job not as crisp and shut lines on the shallow side – but a nifty model nonetheless. Reminds me a lot my Ligier<\/a> by them, but without the bad headlights. However nifty, I think it\u2019s a model only for the Le Mans nut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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PS: Mr. Stupid All-Thumbs here managed to snap a wing mirror. Fortunately, an easy fix. But I confess I got mighty pissed at myself. And may have used a bit (just a smidge) of foul language.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
1994 Lotus Esprit Sport 300 Pilots: R. Piper, P. Hardman, O. Iacobelli Team: Lotus Sport \/ Chamberlain Engineering Race: DNF (class GT2) at Le Mans in 1994 Spark – S0447 (resin) Published 06\/18\/17 Introduced in 1992, the Esprit Sport 300 was as a stripped-out lighter version of the Esprit Turbo. Based on Lotus’s IMSA racing … Continue reading “Lotus Esprit Sport 300 #62 – Spark”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-387","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8879,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/387\/revisions\/8879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}