Lotus 24 Chevrolet Chris Summers Castle Combe 1967

Chris Summers at speed in his Lotus 24 Chevrolet chassis no.942 at Castle Combe in 1967. Summers car was an ex F1 1.5 litre with a small block Chevy squeezed into the back and raced widely in British Formule Libre events in the mid-late 1960s and later in the first season of F5000.

Summers died when the car blew a tyre at Snetterton in September 1970 and threw the car off the Norwich straight at top speed, throwing him out (he never wore belts)...

10x7 inch (254x178mm)