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...

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...

Lotus Group (also known as Lotus Cars) is a British multinational automotive manufacturer of luxury sports cars and electric vehicles. Lotus Group is composed...

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...

Team Lotus was the motorsport sister company of English sports car manufacturer Lotus Cars. The team ran cars in many motorsport categories including Formula...

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,...

The Lotus 49 was a Formula One racing car designed by Colin Chapman and Maurice Philippe for the 1967 F1 season. It was one of the first F1 cars to use...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

was won from pole position by Austrian driver Jochen Rindt, driving a Lotus 72. Rindt took his third consecutive victory after Australian Jack Brabham...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

ran out of fuel, which happened often in 1972. Lotus team Manager Peter Warr said Walker drove the Lotus 72 like a F3 car, and never adapted to the smoother...

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...

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...

Formula One season Drivers' Champion: Jochen Rindt Constructors' Champion: Lotus-Ford Previous 1969 Next 1971 Races by country Races by venue The 1970 Formula...

1968 Ford P68 1971 Tyrrell-Cosworth 002 1978 Lotus-Cosworth 79 Problems playing these files? See media help. The DFV is an internal combustion engine...

have also used them. A rare few rear wheel drive racing cars (e.g., the Lotus 72) have also used inboard front discs, accepting the need to provide a front...

BT20-Repco Lotus 49-Ford 6 6 54 14 1969 John Love Lotus 49-Ford 4 5 43 1 1970 Dave Charlton Lotus 49-Ford 7 8 69 32 1971 Dave Charlton Lotus 49-Ford Lotus 72-Ford...

Ickx signed with Team Lotus in 1974, a difficult period awaited. Lotus had problems replacing the successful but ageing Lotus 72 (which debuted in 1970)...