

The Lotus Evora will compete in Super GT next season with the Mooncraft organisation. Takuya Yura’s company has purchased a GTA M101 mother chassis and will build it up into the Evora GT300. Mooncraft has a long history of developing its own cars, most famously the Daytona Prototype based Shiden which was outlawed for 2014, forcing the team to use a McLaren MP4-12C GT3 this season.



Yura will develop the M101 into the Evora as it has close ties with the troubled English marque, it is not yet clear what engine it will use. Under the mother chassis sub group of the GT300 class all cars share the same chassis and a number of components, it is thought to be a cheaper approach than developing a full JAF-GT300 or GT3 design.

It is thought that other brands including KIA and Hyundai could also take advantage of the MC101 concept.

The last time a Lotus competed in GT300 was with a Elise based car developed by Proton.

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