Hot Wheels Lotus Turbine is modeled after the cars that Andy Granatelli's STP team raced at Indianapolis in 1968.



Graham Hill in the #70

The #70 car, driven by Graham Hill, was one of three bright orange Lotus Turbines that started the race (a fourth Lotus Turbine was destroyed in a pre-race crash that took the life of driver Mike Spence).



The three STP Lotus Turbines that ran in the 1968 Indianapolis 500

Powered by Pratt & Whitney turbine engines, the Lotus cars were amazingly fast. Joe Leonard captured the pole position in the #60 Lotus Turbine with a then-record speed of 171.559 mph. Hill started the race from the second position. All three cars were running near the front, but Hill crashed on lap 110. Leonard was leading the race with nine laps remaining when a fuel shaft broke and forced him to retire. Amazingly, Art Pollard's #20 Lotus Turbine also had suffered a broken fuel shaft three laps earlier. The three STP cars finished in 12th, 13th and 19th places in the race won by Bobby Unser.