Lotus Ultimate Track Car Design Study Combines Sleek Aerodynamics With Muscular Stance

Although Lotus is already developing a hypercar with the potential to shake-up the industry, professional Japanese car designer Yosuke Yamada has envisioned what a different high-performance car from the British marque could look like.

Yamada told CarScoops that he wanted to create a Lotus in the same vein as the track-only Ferrari FXXK and Aston Martin Vulcan supercars.

The designer, who works for a Japanese OEM, made this dream Lotus study as the ‘Ultimate Track Car Concept’ meaning aerodynamics has played a key role in its design. In addition, it has been envisioned to be lightweight, like all Lotus models.

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“My biggest challenge in creating this study was how to combine and balance athletic and tense surfaces with aerodynamic flowing shapes without making them look too look thin or fragile,” Yamanda told us. “I always admired how Lotus managed to accomplish this sort of sculptural expression on their cars.”

The front of Yamada’s design is particularly eye-catching. Rather than featuring traditional headlights, the car simply features thin LED daytime running lights, but as this is a track car, that would be more than enough. What’s more, headlights add unnecessary weight to a vehicle like this. The Lotus Ultimate Track Car Concept also includes a carbon fiber front splitter and large air ducts across the hood to funnel air through the car and suck it down into the road.

The sides are equally as focused on aerodynamics and also include large air intakes to feed the engine. The designer told us that he imagined it to powered by a “highly tuned compact four-cylinder engine”, which would make the four exhaust pipes mounted on the top of the rear deck excessive, but impressive nevertheless.

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Finally, like all great track-focused cars, the Lotus concept sports a diffuser – and it’s a massive one made from carbon fiber.

Note: This is an independent illustration from Yosuke Yamada and is not endorsed by Lotus in any way. We thank the designer for sharing his work with us, which you can check out on his Instagram and Behance pages.