Lotus 2-Eleven GT4 finishes first 24 hour race in Dubai

The new GT4 version of the Lotus 2-Eleven track car made its competition debut in Dubai last week with a strong run marred by a mid-race gearbox failure. The car was campaigned by the Empire Motorsports team from Malaysia that took it easy in qualifying for a 36th starting position, but then worked their way up to 9th overall after 18 hours of racing. Unfortunately, the sequential gearbox packed it in at that point. The team consisting mostly of automotive technology students spent the next three hours replacing the gearbox, dropping the car to 50th overall. Over the final three hours, the drivers managed to work their way back up to 44th overall out of 59 finishing cars.
[Source: Lotus]