Colin Chapman
Colin Chapman was a famous car designer who started Lotus Cars. He is known for creating new ideas that made race cars faster, including a special design that helped cars stick to the track better.
Colin Chapman was a British engineer and founder of the Lotus Cars company, known for his innovative designs and contributions to motorsport, particularly in Formula One. He is credited with developing the concept of the ground effect car, which revolutionized racing aerodynamics.
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"so the car was essentially rebuilt around an Esprit backbone shatter using lots of Esprit bits and lots of Esprit learnings which is what brought Colin Chapman into the company"
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"Lotus chief Colin Chapman's motto of simplify, then add lightness, would come to dominate the sport in the 1960s, and that included a podium sweep in Japan."
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