Lister Storm LMP
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The Lister Storm LMP is a racing car built by Lister Cars. Using knowledge used with the Storm GT in the FIA GT Championship, Lister built the Storm LMP, an open-topped Le Mans Prototype. While the GT car is powered by the Jaguar V12 engine, the prototype uses a Chevrolet V8. The Storm LMP's performances were only lackluster, due to Lister's limited resources as a factory effort. When financial backer Essex Invest pulled out of the project, moving to adversary Zytek, the team moved its attention more to its successful GT car programme. The LMP appeared sporadically following this, its best result being victory in the 2004 Vallelunga 6 hours.
The Lister LMP1 was converted to a hybrid car in mid 2005 and made its debut at the wet 2005 Silverstone 1000km race where it finished 18th in the hands of Justin Keen and Jens Moller. The cars only other appearance following its conversion was in the non-LMES Vallelunga 6 hours, where it was classified second despite suffering suspension failure late in the race.
2006 saw an entry for the full LMS season and a creditable run to second in class at the shortened Istanbul 1000km (seven laps behind the winning Pescarolo). A crash at Spa and a troubled run at Le Mans were less promising. At Le Mans it was announced that Lister would cease development of the Storm LMP and instead concentrate on a new GT1 car. Despite being entered for the full LMS season the car failed to appear at July's Nurburgring 1000km.
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