We head to Levin in 1971 for this week’s BLAST FROM THE PAST. David Oxton’s F5000 Lotus 70 Boss Ford leads Chris Amon’s March 701 Cosworth DFV. Both cars were bought to NZ by the Granatelli STP concern. Thanks to Terry Marshall for the great pic!
Tag: Lotus
We head over to the world of single seaters with HUGE wings for this week’s BLAST – namely the legendary Jochen Rindt in a Lotus 49T at the NZIGP in Pukekohe in 1969. Many thanks to Terry Marshall!
Silverstone Auctions is set to put “one of Europe’s finest collections of road going classic cars to come to market” on the block at The Salon Privé Sale on September 4th in London. Henry Pearman, the founder and CEO of Eagle (apparently “the world’s premier” Jaguar E-Type specialist, and looking at their website, we would have […]
Kimi Räikkönen has shown that old German bloke how a comeback should happen with his brilliant win at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Now he does that rarest of things and speaks of his win and how he plans to celebrate that win. Check out the last answer; he hopes to make it home at […]
Lotus seems to have gone a bit mental, if the latest press release from the embattled sports car manufacturer is anything to go by. The rant, seemingly prompted by a piss-take (seen above) on the brilliant satirical Sniff Petrol website (which Lotus used as a picture in the press release), is, well, odd to say […]
Proof that Kimi Raikkonen does actually talk. Not much though… “Kimi, are you excited by the new Formula One season?” “Not really…” Kimi Speaks! Nope, not sure why he doesn’t answer the last question. Maybe he fell asleep… Doesn’t beat his best interview ever though:
Okay, this is confusing, so pay attention! Group Lotus and Genii Capital, who now own the majority of the Renault F1 team, have joined forces to form the Lotus Renault GP Formula 1 Team. Got that? Good. But, what’s that I hear you say? “What in the name of Sweet Dancing Jesus are you talking […]
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