Team Lotus

Team Lotus was one of Formula 1's most successful teams.

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Colin Chapman established Lotus Engineering in 1952 and it was an almost immediate success with its Mk 8 sportscar. A new Formula 2 regulation was announced for 1957 and in Britain several organizers ran races for the new regulations in the course of 1956. Most of the cars entered that year were sportscars and they included a large number of Lotus 11s, led by the Team Lotus entries for Chapman, Cliff Allison and Reg Bricknell. The cars did well but Cooper, which had produced a single-seater F2 car was able to win most of the races with Roy Salvadori. Chapman won one race at Brands Hatch.

Colin Chapman: Anthony Colin Bruce Chapman (9 May 1928 - 16 December 1982) was born in London. He founded the famous sports car company Lotus in 1952. His initials are shown in the trademark of Lotus. He died of a heart attack....

1952: 1952 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar)....

1957: 1957 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar....

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