Misfits and Mavericks? Sounds like most of us involved with SpeedHunters...............but it set me thinking and there at the top of the list was a man who died 28 years ago but whose legacy still shapes motorsport today. Anthony Colin Bruce Chapman founded Lotus Cars and ran a motorsport team like no other, a brilliant engineer and innovator, summed
Can you imagine what qualities were needed to be THE top racing driver of the 60s. Big hair, wolfish smile, Mediterranean suntan, hairy chest on display, dolly birds on either arm............in other words a regular Carlos Fandango and yet it was much simpler than that..........all you really needed was a Scottish accent and a wee bit o' tartan
Yes that's right Formula One and AWD! The combination of motorsport and power to all four wheels did not start with the Audi Quattro, neither did it start with the the Lotus 63 that you see above. Actually back in 1902 Spyker built an all wheel drive machine that won a hill climb. Then fast forward to 1961 and the Ferguson P99, which was built by