The Modern F1 Blueprint: The Story of the Lotus 49
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- Опубликовано: 17 ноя 2022
- The Lotus 49 is not just one of the best looking cars ever made, it's also one of the most important racing cars ever made. As now, all f1 cars follow the design principals of this car.
It was the first car to use the iconic Ford DFV V8 as well, the most successful F1 engine ever built, and one of my favourites of all time in terms of history, sound and the reason it was built.
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When I said “only time an H16 finished” there should be a “all season” after that.
It looks so neat because it's so simple and direct. The design is strikingly pure and purposeful. It's like a little green stick with wheels.
You had me at
I grew up with posters of Jody Schecter, Gilles Villeneuve, and Farrah Fawcett on the wall. Gilles's poster finally fell apart, but I still have 95% of Jody's poster.
Ah! Something I learned here that was not told of with the print media in 1967, as I was a voracious reader of motorsports back then:
That 100,000 that Ford paid for the Cosworth DFV must've been the best PR bang for the buck in motorsport history. More GP wins than any other engine, raced until '83, and additional wins in Indy Car and WEC. By far the most successful GP engine in history. Such an elegant, clean, and simple design. Pretty to look at and it had a lot to do with the 70s being the classic period it was. Thanks for an excellent video.
Thanks, you keep producing good content. While often I know most of these things, there are always a few nuggets of information that I've not known before or you explain them differently to how my mind interprets things, so always a fun watch :)
I get to comment on this great channel that I like now. I got to sit in the Indy car version of this car when I was like 5 years old, we lived one block away from the Indy 500 we my mom was a race widow my dad died in a sprint the car .He had bought a house right next to Indy 500 cuz his dream was to win the Indy 500 but sadly he died before he could do that. I think my mom work for brabham as a secretary or something and the whole team stayed at our house for the race week of for May most of the month of May and the backup car was in our garage under a tarp. I snuck into the garage and under the tarp and sat in that Green lotus I'll never forget it I think it was only five years old it's awesome
The Lotus type 49. I remember seeing one of these for the 1st time when I was knee high. The undisputed classic vintage race car. Powered by a lightweight three-litre V8. Bit of a gamble, when you consider the other teams were running with V12’s and higher. The brutish delivery of its 415 brake horsepower, was felt like a real kick in the back at around 6500 rpm. The car went onto win dozens of victories, including the famous One-Two of Jim Clark and Graham Hill, at the ‘67 US Grand Prix.
I had wallpaper in the early 70’s with all the F1 cars of the time, it’s still there under other layers!
Brabham did actually drive that Lotus with the H16 in a support race for an Adelaide GP back in the day. He said, in typical Black Jack fashion, "It was a piece of shit back then, and it is a piece of shit today."
A blooming beauty that car was. It's a pity that today's safety standards (which shouldn't ever be lessened) and downforce requirements won't allow for such a design.
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I got to see the Type 49 up close and personal (well, from the other side of a catchfence) at the USGP in October of '67. If memory serves, Clark drove much of the race with a rear suspension issue or a gearbox problem (or maybe both). But "Clark being Clark," he got the win. In the States at that time, there was virtually no coverage of F1 to speak of; I relied on weeks-old issues of ,The Autocar and Autosport, available -- sometimes -- at a news stand in a downtown subway station for racing news from Europe. So it came as a great shock, six months or so later, to stumble across a short paragraph at the very back of the sports section of the Boston Globe and find he'd been killed at Hockenheim. To my much-younger F1-obssessed self, it was something very like a death in the family. Sadly the first of far too many. Thank you for a fine piece of video.
The thing I remember about the 1966 USGP is Jochen Rindt finishing second. He just sat back waiting for Clark's H16 to show its true colors. And for its one and only time it didn't. Would be three years before Rindt would finally get that first win at the 1969 USGP, in a Lotus 49.
Don't forget that the Lotus 49C won the 1970 Monaco Grand Prix with Jochen Rindt driving, not bad for a then 4 season-old and upgraded design. The 49 won at least one race in all 4 of the seasons it competed, which is a stunning achievement. Cars like the MP4/4 were only in use for 1 season, so it's a bit harsh to use that as an example against the 49 in my opinion.
Fascinating. Thanks Aidan!
I had a poster of the SR-71, the '88 Countach, and a McDonnell-Douglas diagram of a cruise missile my dad's friend gave me from his work.
The Lotus 49 on display at the Henry Ford museum is a thing of beauty. A true work of art.
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