The iconic British brand will compete in the championship for the first time since an invitational entry raced in 2017 at Silverstone, with the manufacturer's most recent GT4 appearance coming a year earlier with the Evora as the same model scored the last of Lotus's British GT wins in 2015.
The Emira was released last year having been developed with help from RML and is the first GT racing car produced by Lotus since the Evora in 2010, while it is set to be the last mass-produced internal combustion-engined machine from the company.
The two Emiras that will be used in British GT, as well as in the GT4 European Series, will be run by Mahiki, a team founded in partnership with Aim Technologies which is owned by Steve Lake, who is also set to drive one of the cars having previously competed in the Lotus Cup Europe and Radical Challenge.
"We've got a history of working with Lotus so it felt the right sort of car brand to go with. It's British as well, iconic, it's got a great racing history," he said.
"I don't really have any doubts the car is going to be good. We tested it and made sure we were comfortable with it, the balance of the car feels quite nice. Unless there's something fundamentally wrong, we should be able to make it go round the track quite well.
Source: Autosport