This beautiful little car was the last of the front-engined Lotus Formula 1 cars.  Lotus replaced it with the mid-engined Mk.18 cars and the also mid- engined Mk.19 and Mk.23 sports racers.

Don Orosco got his fill of walkover wins in the days when he campaigned the Scarab now driven by Rob Walton.  Now he handicaps himself with smaller-engined unusual cars, adding more challenge to his race weekends.

He finished 3rd in the 2500cc. Climax-powered Lotus, and could easily win outright next year as he'll certainly develop and sort out the car.  A nice thing about historic racing, your car doesn't become obsolete.