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Takuma Sato and the Indy 500

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I agree. The classic Lotus graphics, largely unchanged for decades, is still very nice looking.

Simple, unfettered design. Very British.

Jolly good. :yesnod:
 
I've always liked it. :smirk:
 
Agree with all the above, but it's a pity it isn't a Lotus, but a Dallara. I just don't get the point!
 
With ya Roger. Lotus in name only, IMO.
 
Roger said:
Agree with all the above, but it's a pity it isn't a Lotus, but a Dallara. I just don't get the point!
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But at least it's out on the track giving Lotus some exposure.

Indy will never be what it was back in the day......anyone remember the Liquid Specials that ran?!
 

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Wouldn't it be nice to relive the '60's again?
Jim Clark/Chapman/Lotus.It won't ever happen,but the mem-
ories are great!

- Doug
 
I bet Ronnie Peterson, and Jim Clark wish they was here to remember the old days, thank god today car builders don't see the drivers as expendable. Conway is a testiment to that.
 
Senna, Revvie, Donohue, that Dale fella... list is long. It has always been an inherent by-product of racing. We now have better devices, materials, overall awareness of what is "safe"... but the risk is still there. Granted, the various drivers' associations have changed things faster than the engineers would have BUT: given the proclivity we humans have to push the envelope, there will likely be volunteers to sit in cockpits who will lose their lives in spite of all the safety precautions implemented.

I do NOT believe Sir Colin considered drivers as "expendable".
 
Look at how lucky the spectators were at Indy this year...at least two of the tires from the last-lap accident in the short shoot between Three and Four ended up over the retaining fence and under the grandstand.

Would have been a VERY bad scene had they bounced into the stands.
 
Yep, like Charlotte IRL race a few years back, that scene looked like a slaughter house.

Back the Lotus race car deal. I read an article about Mario's time with Lotus in F1, it was interesting read, he strenghten alot of his car with steel where Colin had aluminum, Colin and Mario argued like crazy over this. Eventually it became like two teams within one, Mario and his engineers doing their thing and Peterson going the route of Colin. Mario won the championship and Ronnie got killed. Mario, while he greatly respected Colin, didn't have nice things to say about Colin. Colin made some tremendous advancements in the way F1 and formula cars were constructed, that remain to this day, he was inovator for sure.
 
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