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crankedup said:
Will Lotus ever get back into F1 and will there ever be another Chapman? I am seriously missing the passion which just no longer seems to exist in the sport.
Can't see it in the next 15 years, and no there will never be another Colin Chapman. Not in conventional chassis design anyway
No and no.
Motor car design and motor racing has moved on so much sice the days of ACB that the chances of "gifted amateurs" (which is what Chapman essentially was) breaking into top flight motor sport are long gone. It's all corporate, big business, these days. Ironically, it was Chapman with his introduction of ciggie money into F1 who helped change it.
Motor car design and motor racing has moved on so much sice the days of ACB that the chances of "gifted amateurs" (which is what Chapman essentially was) breaking into top flight motor sport are long gone. It's all corporate, big business, these days. Ironically, it was Chapman with his introduction of ciggie money into F1 who helped change it.
daydreamer said:
IIRC David Hunt, brother of the late James owns the Lotus Formula One name rights and has been and is still trying to get the name back into F1 for some time now without success.
Rumor has it that BAR will be looking for a new name in the near future
Perhaps they could go back to being called Tyrell then!
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