A few weeks ago a preview of the interview we had with John Berry was posted here. Because of current circumstances a lot of petrol heads are in self isolation. Or at least should be. Besides binging Netflix and YouTube, picking up a book is not such a bad idea. And why not broaden…
At the beginning of 2019, I flew to London to meet Tim Goss, the race car driver who succesfully raced the unique Lotus Three-7 in the Clubman’s Formula. The story behind the Three-7 and the fabulous meeting with Tim was published in Club Lotus News (English) and Lotus Letters (Dutch) in 2019. In January…
An interview with a sixties Lotus manager and a race car driver from that era, a Classic Team Lotus Tour, a meeting with the East Anglia Lotus Drivers Club chapter, an overnight stay in one of my favorite pubs and maybe, just maybe my Elise might be the means of transport. All this packed…
Despite Colin Chapmans’ ambition of the sixties to conquer the Clubmans Formula with a series of Lotus 37’s, in the end he chose to build only one. Apart from a number of formula cars, hardly any regular Lotus type is unique. This fact makes the 37 instantly ‘special’. Why was only one Three-7, or…