Lotus on Track is Europe’s largest track day club and prides itself on providing friendly, safe and good-value track days. The Lotus on Track Racing Drivers’ Club was formed to provide a platform for Lotus owners to move into motorsport carrying the Lotus on Track principles to the starting grid.

LoTRDC (Lotus on Track Racing Drivers Club) was launched at the end of 2006 in conjunction with MSVR – the racing club division of Motor Sport Vision – owners of Brands Hatch and five other major circuits. LoTRDC is a non-profit club registered with the UK’s National Motorsport authority; Motorsport UK. The club aims to provide drivers with a safe, friendly and sociable environment for Lotus enthusiasts to compete in.

Until 2007 there were only a handful of Lotus cars racing on the same grid. The Lotus on Track Elise Trophy was launched at Brands Hatch in March 2007 and changed that with full grids, huge support from the Lotus community & Group Lotus and plenty of action at circuits across the UK and into Europe.

In 2008 Group Lotus asked LoTRDC to take over the organisation of Lotus Cup Europe, the World’s only race series owned by Group Lotus. By the end of the 2010 season, just 2 years into its partnership LoTRDC has more than trebled the number of cars competing whilst the series had visited Europe’s premier circuits.

In 2011 LoTRDC launched a new championship: Lotus Cup UK. The championship was aimed at those who wanted to take their Lotus racing more seriously. Races incorporated all current Lotus models with the Exige V6, Evora GT4, 2 Eleven and of course Elises & Exiges. Races moved to an endurance format and ran for up to 2 hours involving pit stops, driver changes and refuelling. The championship proved so popular it was granted two separate championships, one for SuperSport and one for Production cars.

In 2013 after a number of years of LoTRDC members competing in entry level motorsport via sprinting the club formed the Lotus Cup UK Speed Championship. Sprinting is a high-speed discipline in which drivers take turns to set a time around a lap of a race circuit or a set course, with the fastest times determining the results. Cars start singly and are timed by electronic equipment accurate to 100th of a second. Sprints are typically held on racing circuits and disused airfields, with venues spread right across the country. LoTRDC continues to run the championship today, bringing Lotus owners into motorsport for the first time.

Lotus Cup Europe was granted FIA International Series status in 2013, with safety and technical regulations governed by the FIA. In addition to enjoying similar status to prestigious series such as DTM & GT World Challenge. With this change and the additional work that was created to run an FIA authorised championship the LoTRDC team of volunteers decided they could no longer run Lotus Cup UK & Elise Trophy so with full grids in both championships and at their height of popularity the two UK championships had new commercial ownership from 2015.

Following 17 years’ stewardship of Lotus Cup Europe on behalf of Group Lotus, LoTRDC will evolve the FIA authorised series into a multi-marque competition for 2026. The new European GT Lite Challenge (EGTLC) series will open up entries to even more drivers of lightweight sportscars, including products from Alpine and Ginetta as it looks to consolidate its position as a race series for aspiring sports and GT competitors.

Lotus will continue to be the predominant marque next season with more than 20 entries already committed. This number means that EGTLC will remain the largest championship in the world for Lotus competitors, a tradition that LoTRDC has maintained since it took over promotion of Lotus Cup Europe in 2009. Since then, the Motorsport UK-affiliated club has welcomed over 200 drivers from 16 nationalities and promoted over 200 races at 16 different venues, supporting major championships including DTM and the European Truck Racing Championship.

EGTLC will retain its highly prestigious FIA International Series status - continuing a 13-year affiliation - with current FIA safety and license requirements kept in place. Race formats will remain similar with sprint races comprising the majority of the six race weekends, plus the continued inclusion of selected mini-endurance pit stop races adding variety.

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