September 6, 2010

The unbearable price of lightness

Amazing document linked by a reader in the Jochen Rindt post: A letter from the Austrian driver to Colin Chapman in 1969, sometime after his accident at Montjuic where the high rear wing collapsed on his Lotus 49.


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Not that much has changed at Lotus to this day, typical British way: brilliant engineering, crap build quality.
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