I SPA with my little eye

Sir,

In the fine article about Jim Clark’s Lotus 25 you made a small captioning error. The featured rebuilt car, chassis R5, was not destroyed at Spa in 1962, but during practice a year later in 1963.

The reason for pointing out this small error is that Trevor Taylor (he really did not have much luck at Spa) had a well-documented coming-together with Willy Mairesse in the race in 1962. That year the team’s only 25 (R1) for the race was, of course, used by Jim Clark, who went on to secure the 25’s first Grand Prix win. Taylor’s car for this race was the ‘old 24’ chassis #948.

I am, Yours etc, Hans Castreninkatu, Finland