There's only one way to fully appreciate Colin Chapman's ground-breaking designs — from behind the wheel. To mark 65 years since Lotus's World Championship debut, these are our favourite track tests of its legendary Formula 1 cars
A wide variety of Lotus cars are often proffered as the ultimate F1 game-changer – but was the Lotus 76 an unusual candidate which trumps them all?
Emerson Fittipaldi was back behind the wheel of his beloved Lotus 72 at Hethel in a 50th anniversary celebration event
This new year sees a big anniversary for mainstream racing car design in general – and for Lotus in particular. At this time of the year in 1962, Colin Chapman…
Hazel Chapman, the wife and co-founder of Lotus with late husband Colin, has died at the age of 94
How Colin Chapman's Lotus fought rivals as F1 innovation took off – an extract from Karl Ludvigsen's Colin Chapman: Inside the Innovator
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From the outset Colin Chapman had no option but to be obsessive about the weight of his cars. He had no access to the exotic twincam engines used by such…
Reviewed by Andrew Frankel in this month's edition of Motor Sport, Colin Chapman's own Lotus Esprit Turbo is as mercurial as the man himself
It would be hard to underestimate just how bad things must have been at Lotus the day Margaret Thatcher came to visit on August 5, 1981. The original plan had…
Lotus recently bought a piece of its own history after purchasing the modified Esprit made especially for its founder, Colin Chapman. The 1981 Series 3 Esprit was Chapman’s final company car…
A one-of-a-kind Lotus Esprit Turbo that was built and modified for Colin Chapman has been bought back by the car manufacturer. The two-seater was Chapman's last 'company car' before it…
Lotus 21 inboard suspension There are certain elements of modern Formula 1 car design that are universal and barely warrant a second glance; one example being the use of inboard…
At the 1960 Monaco Grand Prix, 60 years ago today, a Lotus won in Formula 1 for the first time. It wasn’t a success for the Team Lotus works squad,…
The rain came in biblical proportions. On March 21, 1959, Sebring was soaked, and it featured the US race debut for Colin Chapman’s first production car, the Type 14 Elite.…
“Just what an old man needs.” Mario Andretti, then 38, was referring to his Lotus 79 after dominating the 1978 Belgian Grand Prix at Zolder: on pole by eight-tenths, he…
Step back to Zandvoort, 1967, when Jim Clark gave the Lotus 49 a victorious debut, after team-mate Graham Hill had claimed pole at record speed. The Ford film is packed…
