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Number: 81-2010-50Drivers: Andretti / Mansell / De AngelisRace: 1980 - 1981 Grand Prix Season
The Team Lotus Type 81 was the last Lotus to be raced by Andretti. His best finish was 6th at Waktins Glen. New sponsor Essex Petroleum brought with it a stunning chrome, red and blue colour scheme.
Number: 81-2005-50 Driver: Nigel Mansell Race: 1980 - 1981 Grand Prix Season
His best finish was 3rd at Zolder for the Belgian GP. New sponsor Essex Petroleum brought with it a stunning chrome, red and blue colour scheme.
Nigel Mansell credits Colin Chapman for helping him to realise his F1 ambitions. Subsequently went on to score back-to-back F1 World Championship and Indycar titles.
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The double A side (!?) of 'Champions' and 'Working' al' nighter' was a great idea that captured the spirit of the team an, indeed, F1 in the funky 70's. As Team Lotus mechanics throughout the years will testify it is entirely appropriate that the two titles went together.
In 2004, at the 50 Years of Team Lotus Celebration Dinner, one of the 'vocalists' gave 50 copies to Classic Team Lotus to do with as it saw fit.
Classic Team Lotus is pleased to offer them for sale at £60 each, numbered and signed by Hazel Chapman, Peter Warr and Eddie Dennis with all proceeds being forwarded to the Grand Prix Mechanics Trust.
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At the Goodwood Festival of Speed, Emerson Fittipaldi was kind enough to sign 12 copies of the vinyl record Team Lotus Sings!
They are numbered and also signed by Hazel Chapman, Peter Warr and Eddie Dennis with all proceeds being forwarded to the Grand Prix Mechanics Trust.
This is from the car that Nelson Piquet drove in the 1989 Grand Prix Season.
Piquet finished 4th in Canada, Britain and Japan, with team mate Nakajima scoring a memorable 4th place at Adelaide in atrocious weather conditions.
This comes with a certificate of authenticity and an engraved plaque.
To purchase this end plate or for more information please contact the team on team@classicteamlotus.co.uk
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This car was driven by Donnelly and Herbert in the 1990 Grand Prix season.
The type 102 was fitted with the Lamborghini V12 and is the only Formula One Lotus to have raced with a twelve cylinder engine.
Lotus and the Ford Cosworth DFV engine are inextricably linked. Colin Chapman, Keith Duckworth and Mike Costin worked together to create the greatest engine motor sport has ever seen. The DFV powered F1 cars from 1967 to 1985, an astonishing 19 seasons in the rarified atmosphere of Grand Prix where innovation was king and one season’s World beater would be next season’s backmarker. In the 70s and 80s the team was in the habit of keeping the pistons from rebuilds to use as VIP gifts.
Classic Team Lotus also keeps the pistons from the rebuilds of the engines it maintains today and with a great deal of polishing, then mounting on a wooden plinth, complete with presentation plaque, makes a rather special item of memorabilia.
Lotus and the Ford Cosworth DFV engine are inextricably linked. Colin Chapman, Keith Duckworth and Mike Costin worked together to create the greatest engine motor sport has ever seen. The DFV powered F1 cars from 1967 to 1985, an astonishing 19 seasons in the rarified atmosphere of Grand Prix where innovation was king and one season’s World beater would be next season’s backmarker. In the 70s and 80s the team was in the habit of keeping the pistons from rebuilds to use as VIP gifts. Each engine’s pistons were labeled and stored; not all were presented. With reference to the team’s archives we are able to identify the detail competition history for the engines in which the pistons ran. A great deal of polishing, then mounting on a wooden plinth, complete with presentation plaque, makes a rather special item of memorabilia.
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