Colin Chapman

The big stories from the past week in motor sport from the Archive. Colin Chapman died 33 years ago, a man remembered most for being a revolutionary designer and team…

“I finally got going after a push and spent a dismal race in the middle of the pack… unable to think much save that Boxing Day was a crazy day…

Blip, blip, buzz — pause — clunk, sputter, sputter. This Lotus 'queerbox' is in perfect condition. But it's still a sod. Next lap, into the first corner, there's a confident…

Colin Chapman 1928-1982 Lotus chief Colin Chapman died at his home in Norfolk during the night of December 15th/16th at the age of 54 years, bringing to an end an…

Key figures associated with Team Lotus tell us what they think about the return of the famous name to Formula 1, and recall why it was special to work at…

Such was the march of engineering progress during the 1960s that the MkI Lotus Cortina, of which some 3300 examples were built between 1963 and 1966, proved to be faster…

No story on Colin Chapman could omit the word 'innovation'. But his remarkable talent lay not so much in inventing devices as solving problems, and, more crucially, in identifying that…

Colin Chapman The Man and His Cars, By Gerard Crombac. PSL, £19.99. This new edition has recollections by his son and two daughters of what living with Colin was like,…

This is so much more than a company or personal history. Haskell is an engineer who worked at Lotus in the '60s, and he has the ability to explain in…

In 1981, the year before his death, Colin Chapman's Lotus colleagues witnessed something incredible: the most creative racing car designer of the time fell out of love with motorsport. Convinced…

Sir, The well-written article on Peter Arundell in the December issue is a welcome tribute to a driver whose skills have never previously been appropriately acknowledged. I met Peter for…

Collector’s Edition Filmed in 1968, this follows Chapman through that dramatic season. Perhaps because fame is still new, he talks frankly, laughing every time the interviewer calls him a millionaire:…

There are three reasons why the Lotus 49 made everything else obsolete overnight – and the DFV is only one of them. Works driver Jackie Oliver, who helped develop it,…

The Lotus founder was famed for his drive to innovate; even his final racing car boasted one principle that would change the face of F1 By Andrew Frankel Even at…

A few weeks ago Paul Fearnley documented Colin Chapman’s last Formula 1 cars, including the twin-chassis Lotus 88. Chapman was renowned for pushing the limit and breaking new ground, which…

Anthony Colin Bruce Chapman died 31 years ago this week. He was 54.  Peter Warr and Colin Chapman, 1982 He looked older. The toll exacted by a hectic life of…

In the March issue of Motor Sport, Nigel Roebuck mentions a video of Lotus in 1968 so we thought we'd share it with you. 1968 was a year of ups…