Lotus 30 The Lotus 30 was built for all the wrong reasons. Colin Chapman designed it basically to get even with Eric Broadley for “stealing” the Ford prototype program. Even the premise – light weight and low frontal area at any cost – proved to be fatally flawed. Instead of a revenge weapon, the Lotus 30 became the laughing stock of big-bore sports car racing and the program ended in failure. And yet today the few good examples left command…
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