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Old 03-30-2007, 03:07 PM   #32
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Chapman didn't want any excess capacity (= weight) in his cars at all. He wanted them all to die on the Victory Lap. There are numerous examples of where they didn't quite calculate this correctly, because Lotus also has the greatest number of DNFs in F1 when leading on the Final Lap...

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yes he wanted his car to die and his drivers didn't want to die in them!
He made them so light that they came apart and were suspect in the crash worthy department, even by the abysmal safety standards before this ultra safe era of long/narrow cars with huge crumple zones, onboard fire extinguishers,etc.
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