Many were the similarities shared by young American racer Bobby Marshman and the Scottish Legend Bobby Marshman Photo: IMS Colin Chapman...
Clive Chapman, son of famed Lotus founder Colin Chapman and the guiding light at Classic Team Lotus, revealed an interesting...
Clive Chapman, son of famed Lotus founder Colin Chapman and the guiding light at Classic Team Lotus, revealed an interesting little bit of Lotus trivia recently. Apparently, tucked away in some dusty corner of their Hethel shops was a fireproof case that contained 28 rolls of old microfilm. When they...
“At Monaco you get everything that you meet on a public road lampposts, trees, nightclubs, houses, hotels, curbs, gutters, you...
September 2016 Lotus 18 Colin Chapman’s U-turn By Mark Whitelock Deciding on a theme, title or subject for a book...
The 1972 Lotus Elan Plus 2S first supplied to the late Formula One driver Ronnie Peterson is one of the undisputed — and very affordable — stars of the Historics at Brooklands summer sale in Surrey, UK, on Saturday June 11. It is one of 130 fine, classic motor cars,...
I didn’t think it was a very good thing for a woman to drive those open and powerful cars of...
The Formula Junior category was introduced in Italy in 1958 by Count Giovanni Lurani, and in 1959 became an International...
My very first experiences in a racing car were in a Lotus Seven. In fact, prior to purchasing the Lotus I went to Lotus and asked for a job. I thought I must know how they build these cars if I’m going to race them. I was conscious too that...
Jochen Rindt (right) and Lotus boss Colin Chapman celebrate the Austrian’s 1970 British Grand Prix victory. Photo: Maureen Magee The poet...
Photo: Pete Austin As a wayward young schoolboy, John Judd found it difficult to find employment in the engineering businesses...
Grand Prix Ford: Ford, Cosworth and the DFV By Graham Robson One of the most beneficial results of Ford’s Total Performance campaign of the early 1960s was its involvement as an engine supplier for the Formula One World Championship. That involvement took the form of the DFV V8 (Double-Four-Valve) that...
The Historic Motor Sports Association (HMSA) and Bonhams have announced a new series for under-two-liter sports racing cars built between...
Mike Lawrence Australia has decided to demote FF1600 and install Formula 4 as its national starter series. Formula 4 gives...
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This year’s Cholmondeley Pageant of Power (CPOP), June 12–14th, will celebrate 65 years of Lotus, with a concours, parade and...
Elio de AngelisPhoto: Maureen Magee Colin ChapmanPhoto: Maureen Magee 2 Johnny Rutherford, driving a McLaren-Offenhauser, wins the USAC Indycar race...
Photo: Ian Welsh When you look at any listing of Lotus competition cars built from the first Lotus VI of 1952 through to the mid-1970s, you can observe a change in direction. Prior to the ’70s, any listing will show quite a number of models built, including those for the...
1985 Lola T711-Chevrolet Photo: Kary Jiggle Most sports go through periods of change for whatever reason. Sometimes, these changes are...
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Black Jack and his Brabham biplane are evidence of the aerodynamic wilderness in which the Grand Prix teams found themselves once “The Wing” worked its way into F1’s consciousness.Photo: Chris Willows Red Bull gives you wings” says the advertising strap line for the energy drink that funds not only the...
Dan Gurney’s All American Racers has been entrusted by The Henry Ford Museum with the conservation of the 1967 Le...
Parnelli JonesPhoto: John Zimmermann This year marks the 50th anniversary of Parnelli Jones’ 1963 Indianapolis 500 victory. That win, from...
Without doubt the greatest racing car is one I’ve not driven. I’ll explain later. It’s my hero’s, Jim Clark’s Lotus 49 with the DFV engine. The green and yellow one, with the number 5 (my lucky number) not the one with the cigarette sponsorship! It was the era before ground...
Team Lotus: My View from the Pit Wall By Peter Warr Author Warr was nothing if not Colin Chapman’s right-hand...
During the 1978 season, Mario Andretti and Ronnie Peterson dominated the FIA’s Formula One World Championship. From its introduction at...
Martin OgilviePhoto: Ogilvie Collection Martin Ogilvie is a rare example of someone who knew all along what he wanted to be when he grew up, and who managed to make his mark in the upper echelons of motor sports with a single organization over a dozen years. That vocation was...
Not long after making the ridiculous decision to start this magazine back in 1998, I made a trip over to...
I started work with Lotus Components in 1960. I really wanted to join the Lotus Formula One team, but unless...
Situated on the edge of the Lincolnshire Fens, the sleepy market town streets of Bourne came alive to the sound of music, or to the noise of roaring racing engines on this occasion, to paraphrase the words of Oscar Hammerstein. The event was BRM Day, the 50th Anniversary celebration of...
