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Posts Tagged ‘Chapman’

Posted by glennm on 13 April 2013
Colin Chapman's engineering genius for Team Lotus in the 1960s was matched only by Jim Clark's sublime and innate skill as a racing driver. In this first-person account, Chapman pays homage to his fallen comrade.
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Posted by glennm on 07 April 2013
A retro Formula One video by British Leyland profiling the 1977 F1 season. Chapman, Hunt, Lauda, Andretti and more.
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Posted by glennm on 13 March 2013
Emerson Fittipaldi pilots the four-wheel drive Lotus 56B, fitted with a Pratt & Whitney gas turbine engine, to an 8th place finish at the 1971 Italian Grand Prix.
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Posted by glennm on 21 July 2012
Longer F1 seasons and stronger cars have produced a sport that is hardly recognizable compared with its historical roots, but is it better?
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Posted by glennm on 01 January 2008
Forty years ago, driving Colin Chapman’s revolutionary Lotus 49 and the then still relatively new Ford Cosworth DFV engine, Jim Clark won the South African GP at Kayalami. This would prove to be the last of his 25 Formula One victories.
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