![]() ![]() Innes Ireland won the race for Team Lotus, (its first outright GP victory by the team – as Moss had already bagged the first Lotus GP win at Monaco). A month later, in October 1961, US racers filled up the grid of the non-championship US GP at Watkins Glen, but without Ferrari (out of respect) and without Clark. The Monza accident was the biggest accident in 70 years of F1 GP history (to the present day). Carlo Chiti at Ferrari needed an extra year. Despite his ties to Lotus, Mike Costin did not try to hide his admiration for Cooper in his book: “ Coopers themselves do all they can to perpetrate the old fable about chalk on the wall and piles of tube on the floor, but there is a good reason for every design feature of their cars, and this is just one instance.” It taught Lotus a huge lesson and in 1960 the first mid-engine Lotuses appeared (type 18 and 20). ![]() Part 3: Lotus in 1962 – Chassis Revolutions,Īs mentioned in Part 1 and Part 2 of The Long Read, the Lotus collective of bright and talented engineers and aircraft industry trained draftsmen (Chapman, Mike Costin, Len Terry etc) had overlooked the first chassis revolution of mid-engined F1 cars set off by Cooper.
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