{"id":502687,"date":"2023-05-25T00:57:09","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T07:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/?p=502687"},"modified":"2024-12-29T14:07:35","modified_gmt":"2024-12-29T14:07:35","slug":"car-of-the-day-1997-lotus-elise-gt1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/car-of-the-day-1997-lotus-elise-gt1\/","title":{"rendered":"Car Of The Day: 1997 Lotus Elise GT1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In terms of sheer ambition, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/1997-lotus-elise-gt1\/\">Lotus Elise GT1<\/a>\u00a0was perhaps the ultimate Elise ever created. Conceived to replace the Esprit GT1 in the reinvented BPR Global GT Series that came under FIA\u2019s wing in 1997, the Esprit GT1 seemed like a perfect opportunity to put Lotus under the spotlight and market it to a wider global audience.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/1-33-1080x603-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-536816\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/1-33-1080x603-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"603\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/1-33-1080x603-2.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/1-33-1080x603-2-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/1-33-1080x603-2-1024x572.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/1-33-1080x603-2-100x56.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/1-33-1080x603-2-770x430.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/1-33-1080x603-2-293x164.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Like other competitors in the championship, the Elise GT1 was a silhouette race car packing serious power inside. In place of the miniscule Rover, there was a thoroughly redeveloped twin-turbocharged 5.7-liter LT5 V8, the engine Lotus developed for the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/best-supercars-of-2018\/chevrolet-corvette-zr1\/\">ZR-1 Corvette<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/6-31-1080x603-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-536821\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/6-31-1080x603-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"603\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/6-31-1080x603-1.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/6-31-1080x603-1-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/6-31-1080x603-1-1024x572.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/6-31-1080x603-1-100x56.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/6-31-1080x603-1-770x430.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/6-31-1080x603-1-293x164.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-injected=\"1\">Sadly, Lotus could not keep up with the likes of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/1997-mercedes-benz-clk-gtr\/\">Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/1993-mclaren-f1-gtr\/\">McLaren F1 GTR<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/tag\/porsche-911-gt1\/\">Porsche 911 GT1<\/a>, but this heroic effort definitely makes the Elise GT1 worthy of its place on the list.<\/p>\n<p data-injected=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/3-34-1080x603-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-536822\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/3-34-1080x603-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"603\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/3-34-1080x603-1.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/3-34-1080x603-1-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/3-34-1080x603-1-1024x572.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/3-34-1080x603-1-100x56.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/3-34-1080x603-1-770x430.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/3-34-1080x603-1-293x164.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/5-33-1080x603-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-536823\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/5-33-1080x603-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"603\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/5-33-1080x603-1.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/5-33-1080x603-1-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/5-33-1080x603-1-1024x572.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/5-33-1080x603-1-100x56.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/5-33-1080x603-1-770x430.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/5-33-1080x603-1-293x164.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/2-33-1080x603-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-536825\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/2-33-1080x603-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"603\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/2-33-1080x603-1.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/2-33-1080x603-1-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/2-33-1080x603-1-1024x572.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/2-33-1080x603-1-100x56.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/2-33-1080x603-1-770x430.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/2-33-1080x603-1-293x164.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p data-injected=\"1\">Photo Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dylan-miles.com\/vehicles\/1997-lotus-elise-gt1\/\">DYLAN MILES\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In terms of sheer ambition, the\u00a0Lotus Elise GT1\u00a0was perhaps the ultimate Elise ever created. Conceived to replace the Esprit GT1 in the reinvented BPR Global GT Series that came under FIA\u2019s wing in 1997, the Esprit GT1 seemed like a perfect opportunity to put Lotus under the spotlight and market it to a wider global audience. &nbsp; Like other competitors in the championship, the Elise GT1 was a silhouette race car packing serious power inside. In place of the miniscule [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":828234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9494,1920],"tags":[9495,1961,1963,5707],"class_list":["post-502687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-car-of-the-day","category-lotus","tag-car-of-the-day","tag-lotus","tag-lotus-elise","tag-lotus-elise-gt1"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Car Of The Day: 1997 Lotus Elise GT1<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/car-of-the-day-1997-lotus-elise-gt1\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Car Of The Day: 1997 Lotus Elise GT1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In terms of sheer ambition, the\u00a0Lotus Elise GT1\u00a0was perhaps the ultimate Elise ever created. 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