Elio de Angelis Lotus 88 race car 1981 season

Elio de Angelis was born in Rome (Italy)
made his debute in Formula 1 1979 season
with the team Shadow, after one season
de Angelis he leave Shadow for Lotus for 
the 1980 season, the Italian had not lot's 
of succes and it looked like the Lotus Team
was paying lot's of attention to Ayrton Senna,
1986 season Elio came out for Bernie Ecclestone
Formula 1 Team Brabham, the BT55 race car 
was not pretty fast and and they worked hard
to make the car fast, while testing on Paul Ricard 
circuit de Angelis loosed the rear wing on the 
straight, he loses control, the car collapsed 
seeral times and burn down, Elio died later 
in the hospital...

This Lotus has a special story, a beautifull 
car, and off course the "ground effect" the 
speciality of Mr Colin Chapman, the car 
was so efficient through the ground effect
it was unnatural for these times, sometimes
drivers even get sick...

Anyway, no JPS colors as you can see, but 
this is a treu beauty, good job also by 
GP replica's, as you can see, the model
will be supplyed with display...