The Lotus 72 is a Formula One car designed by Colin Chapman and Maurice Philippe of Lotus for the 1970 Formula One season. The 72 was a pioneering design...
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Lotus Group (also known as Lotus Cars, and trading as Lotus NYO in China) is a British multinational automotive manufacturer of luxury sports cars and...
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stop-gap means to an end for Lotus, who were fighting back after the failure of the Lotus 76 and the obsolescence of the Lotus 72 in 1975. Three chassis were...
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Team Lotus was the motorsport sister company of English sports car manufacturer Lotus Cars. The team ran cars in many motorsport categories including Formula...
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shape became a prominent feature of the world championships winning Lotus 72. The Lotus 56 used a modified version of the ST6 gas turbine used on the STP-Paxton...
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The Lotus 49 was a Formula One racing car designed by Colin Chapman and Maurice Philippe for the 1967 F1 season. It was designed around the Cosworth DFV...
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integrated wings, which would be used to great effect in the Lotus 72. John Miles, Lotus' third driver, was entrusted with the task of developing the...
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disappointing lack of pace of the ageing Lotus 72 the previous season and the indifferent performance of the current Lotus 77, Lotus’ founder and principal design...
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Formula One season. The 76 was intended to be a more advanced version of the Lotus 72, powered by the Ford Cosworth DFV and featuring modified aerodynamics,...
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Jochen Rindt (category Team Lotus Formula One drivers)
He had a very successful 1970 season, mainly racing the revolutionary Lotus 72, and won five of the first nine races. In practice for the Italian Grand...
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John Miles (racing driver) (category Team Lotus Formula One drivers)
Lotus 72 was entered, but Miles failed to qualify for the race in which Rindt had to retire early. Due to the problems with the 72, the updated Lotus...
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Four-wheel drive in Formula One (section Lotus 63)
and the two 4WD gas turbine cars Lotus had entered in the Indy 500, and as well as its wedge shape the later Lotus 72 would also inherit its inboard front...
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was won by Lotus-Ford driver Jochen Rindt in his new monocoque-chassis Type 72, a radical wedge shape first used on the 1968 Indianapolis Lotus, with inboard...
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in the championship. The Lotus team had finished fifth in the standings of 1971, but kept developing their innovative Lotus 72 "wedge" design to take a...
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The Lotus Elise is a sports car conceived in early 1994 and released in September 1996 by the British manufacturer Lotus Cars. A two-seater roadster with...
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sponsorship of Team Lotus began with the Lotus 49 in Gold Leaf colours in the 1968 Tasman Series. It continued with the Lotus 49 and Lotus 72 in Formula One...
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Formula One World Championship Grand Prix, his home race in 1975, driving a Lotus 72 for a local team, Team Gunston. He finished 11th, scoring no championship...
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David Walker (racing driver) (category Team Lotus Formula One drivers)
ran out of fuel, which happened often in 1972, Lotus team Manager Peter Warr said Walker drove the Lotus 72 like a F3 car, never adapting to the smoother...
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The Lotus Europa name is used on two distinct mid-engine GT cars built by British automobile manufacturer Lotus Cars. The original Europa and its variants...
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Maurice Philippe (category Lotus Cars)
first redesigned the Lotus 39, then produced the Lotus 43, the classic Lotus 49, the ground-breaking Lotus 72 as well as the Lotus 56 turbine Indy cars...
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by Jackie Stewart. For the third of his three attempts, Keizan drove a Lotus 72, entered by local outfit Team Gunston. After Formula One, Keizan raced...
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interpretation of the Lotus 72 concept, appeared to many as the best design on the field. Fittipaldi made the choice to leave Lotus for McLaren that offered...
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Emerson Fittipaldi (category Team Lotus Formula One drivers)
developed the previous season's Lotus 72. Armed with what was arguably the greatest Formula one design of all time, the Lotus 72D, Fittipaldi proved dominant...
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was won from pole position by Austrian driver Jochen Rindt, driving a Lotus 72. Rindt took his third consecutive victory after Australian Jack Brabham...
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The Lotus Sūtra (Sanskrit: Saddharma Puṇḍarīka Sūtram, Sūtra on the White Lotus of the True Dharma, Chinese: 妙法蓮華經) is one of the most influential and...
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Formula One season Drivers' Champion: Jochen Rindt Constructors' Champion: Lotus-Ford Previous 1969 Next 1971 Races by country Races by venue The 1970 Formula...
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Rindt (AUT) September 5, 1970 28 Italian Grand Prix Autodromo Nazionale di Monza Lotus 72 Qualifying Jo Siffert (SUI) October 24, 1971 35 World Championship Victory...
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in a March 711 Peter Gethin in a McLaren M19A Emerson Fittipaldi in a Lotus 72 This was the Formula One World Championship debut for that year's Le Mans...
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The Lotus Exige /ɛɡˈziːʒ/ is a sports car made by the British company Lotus Cars from 2000 until 2021. Originally a coupé version of the Lotus Elise roadster...
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Ronnie Peterson (category Team Lotus Formula One drivers)
Team Lotus to partner Emerson Fittipaldi. Peterson's first Grand Prix win was at the 1973 French Grand Prix, held at Paul Ricard, in a Lotus 72. He took...
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