Having raced this car he went on to build an Eleven, eventually campaigning it at Le Mans under the Team Lotus umbrella.

During the following years he spent much time developing the Lotus Grand Prix cars, most notably the front-engined 16 and then the 18.

He drove with Peter Ashdown in a 1098cc Lotus Eleven in the 1957 24 Hours of Le Mans but they failed to finish.

He drove a Lotus XV-Climax to victory at Aintree, in a July 1959 race for sports cars of 1400cc to two litres.

[7] Stacey's car went off the road on the inside of the fast, sweeping right-hand Burneville curve (the same corner where Moss crashed the previous day),[5] climbed a waist-high embankment, penetrated 10 feet (3.0 m) of thick hedges, and fell into a field.