{"id":74,"date":"2007-09-08T13:29:43","date_gmt":"2007-09-08T20:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rahulnair.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/08\/f1-heritage\/"},"modified":"2008-10-30T10:41:35","modified_gmt":"2008-10-30T17:41:35","slug":"f1-heritage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rahulnair.net\/blog\/2007\/09\/08\/f1-heritage\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 Heritage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rnair\/1347211717\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1090\/1347211717_0b4221ca77.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Lotus F1 Championships\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I just got this great decal of the years in which <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Team_Lotus\">Team Lotus<\/a> won the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_Formula_One_World_Constructors%27_Champions\">F1 constructors championship<\/a>. It may have been well before my time but there was a period in the 60s and 70s that Lotus was by far and away the best team in Formula 1. The genius of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Colin_Chapman\">Colin Chapman<\/a> combined with the talent of drivers like <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jim_Clark\">Jim Clark<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Graham_Hill\">Graham Hill<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Emerson_Fittipaldi\">Emerson Fittipaldi<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mario_Andretti\">Mario Andretti<\/a> resulted in Lotus not only having the fastest cars but also the best drivers &#8211; makes you feel sorry for their opposition  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>For more info on the racing history of Lotus check out their <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Team_Lotus\" target=\"_blank\">wikipedia page<\/a>. Another good source of information is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.classicteamlotus.co.uk\">Classic Team Lotus<\/a> an independent company formed by Clive Chapman to preserve and promote the cars raced by Team Lotus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just got this great decal of the years in which Team Lotus won the F1 constructors championship. It may have been well before my time but there was a period in the 60s and 70s that Lotus was by far and away the best team in Formula 1. The genius of Colin Chapman combined [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[176,175,174,30],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorsport","tag-constructors","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-lotus"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqPFW-1c","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rahulnair.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rahulnair.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rahulnair.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rahulnair.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rahulnair.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rahulnair.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rahulnair.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rahulnair.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rahulnair.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}