The Lotus 42 is an

open-wheel An open-wheel single-seater (often known as formula car) is a car with the wheels outside the car's main body, and usually having only one seat. Open-wheel cars contrast with street cars, sports cars, stock cars, and touring cars, which have thei ...

race car chassis, and was

Team Lotus Team Lotus was the motorsport sister company of English sports car manufacturer Lotus Cars. The team ran cars in many motorsport categories including Formula One, Formula Two, Formula Ford, Formula Junior, IndyCar, and sports car racing. Mor ...

' second purpose-built IndyCar entry, designed to win

1967 Indianapolis 500 The 51st International 500 Mile Sweepstakes was held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana, over two days, Tuesday May 30 and Wednesday May 31, 1967. The race was dominated by Parnelli Jones in the radically new, four-wheel driv ...

, being driven by Graham Hill. The car was unsuccessful that year, with Hill retiring on lap 23 of the race. The car would end up finding most of its competition in

Formula 5000 Formula 5000 (or F5000) was an open wheel, single seater auto-racing formula that ran in different series in various regions around the world from 1968 to 1982. It was originally intended as a low-cost series aimed at open-wheel racing cars tha ...

racing. It was powered by the naturally-aspirated, ,

Ford Indy V8 engine The Ford Indy V8 engine is a naturally-aspirated, pushrod, V-8, Indy car racing engine, intitally specially designed by Ford for use by Team Lotus (but later used by other teams as well), to compete in the Indianapolis 500; from 1963 to 1967. Th ...

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{{Lotus 38 American Championship racing cars Formula 5000 cars