Why unloved Lotus 76 may be Colin Chapman's most significant car
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?
We’ve been doing these podcasts for four years now and, with one a month (and sometimes more), that adds up to over 50 hours of content.
In those four years we’ve been lucky enough to interview seven Formula 1 world champions, drivers who share 38 Le Mans wins, a 20-time Isle of Man TT winner, four F1 commentators, two team principals, a CART champion and a four-time IndyCar champion. However, in all that time we haven’t had ‘the racing dentist’, Tony Brooks. We’ve been all the poorer for it – as you will realise, if you didn’t already, when you listen to this hour we recorded recently.
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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?
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