Last week we posted a piece on Lotus’ new configurator for the Evija electric hyper-car. We had great fun creating our perfect version of a car we could never afford. It was a lovely little distraction from doing real work. Today Lotus gave us reason to head back to the configurator! Historic F1 Liveries.
There are six main options:

They have names like Challenger and Innovator. These relate to real Lotus races cars or liveries that they raced in the past. Lotus have some of the most iconic race liveries to ever grace the race tracks of the world. To help the uninitiated, we’ve put a list together of the cars/liveries that each spec relates to:
EVIJA LIVERY | REAL RACE LIVERY | YEARS RACED |
LEGEND | Original Team Lotus | 1958-1968 |
ICON | Gold Leaf Team Lotus | 1968-1971 |
INNOVATOR | Team Lotus TYPE 56B | 1971 |
ZENITH | JPS Team Lotus | 1972-1986 |
ADVERSARY | Essex Team Lotus | 1979-1980 |
CHALLENGER | Camel Team Lotus | 1987-1990 |
You really should head over to Lotuscars.com to check it out for yourself but here are all of the liveries in full glory:






Which is your favourite? Let us know in the comments! Want to know more about the EVIJA? We were at the launch last year. Click here to read all about it.