Chapman was a genius - flawed in many ways - but an incredible innovator. I miss him. F1 misses him too !! RIP Colin. Rx
@MarcoTav1811 жыл бұрын
What makes me sad about this whole ultra tight F1 management we see today is to think about how many great minds it is blocking, how many great innovations we are missing. It is kind of sad... On the other hand, about Colin. An impressive man, a genius, it is awesome to see how many fantastic inventions he made that endure to these days. RIP Colin.
@josedacunhafilho4 жыл бұрын
1:25 Kind of weird citing five drivers who were "atracted by Lotus", and leaving out Rindt, Fittipaldi, and Peterson as if they were lesser drivers
@josedacunhafilho3 жыл бұрын
@@somedrytoast2307 So right! A long time!
@dariolp7713 жыл бұрын
Impresionante el vídeo...grande Colin Chapman!
@russeller7111 жыл бұрын
Chapman was a genius,his firsts owed nothing to anyone else in motorsport,some of his ideas came from aviation.First use of true venturi,first monocoque,first to understand the true signifigance of weight etc.I could go on and on.No other race car designer comes close. Just try naming one team who comes anywhere near lotus for innovation.
@josedacunhafilho4 жыл бұрын
I hadn't realized this is an advertisement; disregard my comment below.
@risingsunprojectgr6 жыл бұрын
True and honest video This man when racing or they let him race always first and the only man that pissed on the doors of Maranello He came he won he pissed on the little horse nobody saw him or heard him he went like a gentleman!
@sonecaesono10 ай бұрын
Epic Video ❤
@frankhoward76457 жыл бұрын
At 6:18, it says the 1973 World Constructor's Championship was won by a Lotus type 74. I believe it was a Lotus type 72.
@Miklos827 жыл бұрын
You are correct. The Lotus type 72 had an extraordinary long life for a racing car.
@RikiNewtonMusicianSongwriter5 жыл бұрын
Frank Howard You are completely correct it was the type 72. Well spotted.
@edwardrichardson82542 жыл бұрын
He took all that ground effects from Texan Jim Hall in Cam-Am who had been doing it years before, ditto for Gordon Murray who copied Hall's fan car concept but just served it up differently 8 years after Hall (Hall's used a separate engine so it generated downforce even standing still, Gordon's downforce decreased w/ speed, the opposite of what you want). Hall did not just do wings, he was doing active rear wings years before F1 was even doing wings. You won't see this on Chapman's Wiki entry, but here's Jim Hall's: : "Hall pioneered wings, movable aerodynamic devices, side-mounted radiators, semi-automatic transmissions and composite monocoque chassis structures, all of them innovations later adopted by and still present today in every Formula 1 car." Hall's Chaparral 2J was using articulated polycarbonate skirts 7 years before the Lotus 78, and Hal's' skirts had a system of pullies and wires to harmonize them w/ the suspension so the seal was perfect. Hall's Chaparral 2E moved the radiators from the front to the sides in 1966!!!! That's four years before the Lotus 72! "History does not repeat itself; the historians repeat each other." - Max Beerbohm
@Adonai8713 жыл бұрын
precioso video!
@mrbrmb239 жыл бұрын
Great upload!
@frederickmiles3276 жыл бұрын
If it looks right it is right. Simple and elegant. Americans sneer at the philosophy, 'you don't want to make a bridge stronger than in needs to be. But if the carriage or car is heavier than it has to be it, it won't be fast or efficient or sellable. In wartime he would have been a air marshall. Even he did not judge a driver on shear speed. The essence of GP, was the pass, the duel and to win you had to finish.
@EricIrl11 жыл бұрын
Read the book "Colin Chapman - Wayward Genius" by Mike Lawrence. It is an extremely frank review of Chapman's achievements - and how he relied on the knowledge of others and used their skills to make more successful racing cars. Despite what you say, he was rarely the first to do anything (not even a monocoque) but he often did it BETTER than anybody - and therefore set trends which others followed.
@frederickmiles3276 жыл бұрын
Not a soft sport. Look at Andretti tracking Gilles Villenueve at Brands in 1979- Its like Randal Cunningham in a F4 Phantom running against a Mig 21. Watch Scheckter shiver when he find out at the last minute Andrettis taken the second front row position at Anderstrop from Amon. The thought of that Black Lotus 77 with the silver stripes alongside alongside him on the starting grid sends visible shivers down Jody's composure
@EricIrl11 жыл бұрын
Although Lotus (rightfully) can claim some firsts, IN FORMULA 1, it often borrowed on ideas which had first been tried in other motor sport categories. Other teams can also claim lots of firsts too.
@Miklos827 жыл бұрын
As much as I admired Colin Chapman for his racing car philosophy of 'adding lightness', one must remember that Lotuses were very fast, but also very fragile as the deaths of Lotus drivers Alan Stacey, Jim Clark, Jochen Rindt and Ronnie Peterson will attest.
@pezzyy997 жыл бұрын
Chapman wasn t gilty for the dead of Ronnie Peterson, that were the doctors in Italian!
@chrisdavidson9116 жыл бұрын
back in those days racing drivers had a high death rate, it wasn't just with lotus
@Miklos826 жыл бұрын
I in no way blame Chapman for the death of any of his drivers. And to blame Italian doctors for Ronnie Peterson's death is xenophobic.
@morganrees68076 жыл бұрын
Clark's accident was caused almost certainly by a deflating Firestone tyre. Peter Jowitt at RAE Farnborough carried out a thorough investigation of the wreckage, at Chapman's request, and found no failure of any component on the car itself. Alan Stacey crashed after being hit in the face by a bird - also hardly Chapman's fault. Rindt;s death was caused by two factors - 1) the guardrails had been improperly erected (not close enough to the ground allowing the car to hit a post and 2) Rindt never wore crotch straps, so he "submarined" and his lap straps and harness clip strangled him. Without those two, it is likely he would have survived the crash. His manager, Bernie Ecclestone, when Jochen discussed which team to join for '69 told him "you would survive in a Brabham, but win in a Lotus"
@zeus-mt7wx6 жыл бұрын
starman1968ful Jim Clark was killed when tire blew while racing in F2 sponsor race.
@frederickmiles3276 жыл бұрын
Chris Amon never drove for Lotus, although in many senses Ensign N175, N176 and N177 were the last conventional Lotus the alt Lotus 76, 77 and 78 that might have precluded ground effects for a generation and preserved real GP to about 1986. That the charge against Colin, he destroyed the sport he loved like Admiral Nelson. My view is that every driver who drove those F1 Ensigns was selected by Chapman from Amon to Geoff Lees.
@GuilySBS12 жыл бұрын
Does anybody have any idea what songs are used in this video?
@silviocioffi95883 жыл бұрын
Fittipaldi?
@Pasovineyard5 жыл бұрын
12 Senna
@otavioantonioadamo48406 жыл бұрын
BECAUSE NOT MENTIONED THE EMERSON FITTIPALDI
@gert-janboot39286 жыл бұрын
Chapman a genius?? maybe just maybe but one fact is very clear he was a very dangerous man , ruthless , had no interest in the health of his drivers with his very fragile cars!! all in all a dangerous man he was !!! personal responsable for many unneccesary deaths!!!!!!!!!!!!!! period!!!
@Naxt3664 жыл бұрын
He gave a shit about the drivers safety, period. Thanks Collin
@matejsykora812910 жыл бұрын
what is the name of song starting at 6:55 ?
@pezzyy995 жыл бұрын
Chapman is gone much too early (54 years)! With an older Chapman, Lotus would have been the most successful Formula 1 Team!
@thomaspietrowski49195 жыл бұрын
To my mind one of the most egocentric crooks in racing business. He killed Jim Clark and Jochen Rindt with his poor engineering. To Rindt he mostly talked through Bernie Ecclestone. They both were done with each other. Good, Chapman died early before killing more superb drivers.
@gert-janboot39285 жыл бұрын
Well said Thomas!!
@Sean-if7rp5 жыл бұрын
Thomas Pietrowski Killed Ronnie Peterson as well, Lotus cars ruined more careers than they made
@mreuropa885 жыл бұрын
I don't believe Chapman forced any of these drivers to race, so I am at a loss to see how he was responsible. Poor Jochen died, but he may have survived if he had fastened his crotch strap which he refused to do and consequently submarined and ended up with a fatal injury . RIP Jochen Rindt
@muppetrowlf14735 жыл бұрын
Idiot. Modern F1 is because of Colin Chapman. He and Frank Costin were 2 of the greatest automotive engineers that ever lived.
@marcjackson741110 жыл бұрын
Don't dispute the fact that Chapman was an innovative genius, because quite simply he was, totally undeniable. He was also an unscrupulous crook (see the De Lorean affair) who had a cynical disregard for the safety of his drivers, several of the all time greats (Clark, Rindt, Moss and Peterson) to name but a few either died or ended their careers in his fragile creations. And the business about Senna joining Lotus because of Chapman's genius..utter horseshit! Seem to remember that Senna debuted in a Lotus in 1985 - three years after Chapman died...obviously Senna would have been very aware of Chapman's legacy but to claim that he signed because of Chapman is stretching it a bit...seem to remember that Sennas cars were actually designed by Gerard Ducarouge...this clip is PR at its worst...
@risingsunprojectgr6 жыл бұрын
Respectful opinion what will you do when governments plot against you? when you find out that through your cars drug deals are made and when you are what you are and start thinking that you can make a car out of some glue and some paper floor haha ......and please tell me who is more of a crook colin or the fia group banning cars from f1 just because its faster and better and they did not know how to build one?So you see interpretation went sideways.......The chassis still remains one that everybody tries to copy.......
@risingsunprojectgr6 жыл бұрын
Plus the video starts honestly:He did not play by other peoples rules......and winning is everything........
@risingsunprojectgr6 жыл бұрын
Plus Senna died in a lotus john player with a renault gordini motor and if this not a damned vehicle what is?
@Trevver6 жыл бұрын
The general consensus is that Clark's fatal accident was the result of tyre failure, not a car issue. Rindt's was caused by faulty machining of a brake shaft by a well-known supplier, not poor design. Petersen's car was hit by others and he broke his legs. Not a car fault. Better hospital treatment most likely seen him survive. The 60's and 70's were deadly times for racing drivers and they didn't all die in Lotus.
@argo1argo15 жыл бұрын
Stirling Moss is still alive (July 2019) and Senna died in a Williams not a Lotus.