European Editor Ed McDonough recently became the first person outside Team Lotus to drive one of the best kept secrets ever created by Colin Chapman, the Lotus 58, or by its proper designation, the Type 57/58. Had Jim Clark not been killed at Hockenheim in April 1968, Lotus history might have been different – the 58’s radical wedge shape may well have meant wings didn’t get as much attention as they did – the future landscape of racing may have…
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