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Post by afx on May 30, 2019 3:12:47 GMT -8
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Post by clowncar on May 30, 2019 13:23:27 GMT -8
I remember watching Fittipaldi win at Indianapolis, once, pretty sure it was the ‘89 race, but I’d somehow never heard him interviewed. Interesting character. Some echoes of the Duncan Hamilton autobiography I’m presently re-reading.
And the 72’s certainly an interesting car. Been a fan and motoring practitioner of Chapman’s “simplify, then add lightness” mantra since I read it ages ago. Example: I presently drive a small, old, Toyota RAV4, which is decidedly pedestrian, but its engine has more power and grunt than my ‘82 Supra did. The two rear bucket seats come completely out of this thing, if you need them to. Well, when I inherited it from my late father, I needed them to. Those seats were the second things to come out and go into the storage locker, after the rear floor mats. Because Colin Chapman.
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Post by Joel_W on May 30, 2019 13:56:52 GMT -8
Chapman took the light at any cost a little to far at times, and even Jochen Rindt after his crash in the Lotus 49 became an outspoken critic of Chapman's cars, calling them unsafe as well as unreliable, still he stayed the course at Lotus. I loved the Lotus 72 series with the John Player Special sponsorship and pin stripping in Gold. Just had to build the Ebbro 72E because of that finish ahead of all my other lotus models waiting for bench time.  JC, Heading over to checkout that video |
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