retrospect

Colin Chapman's name is usually remembered in connection with the formula successes of his Lotus Team racing team. But the sporting achievements of his cars are only the tip of the iceberg, the visible part of his achievements.

He was among the first to realize that heavy frame structures of cars, leaf springs and much more are a dead—end branch of development. He was the first to make a car with a monocoque body type — this is a load-bearing body in which the outer shell is the main element that accepts loads (all Formula 1 cars have monococks to this day).

He was the first to come up with the idea of putting the same MacPherson struts on the rear suspension as in front, and was also the main ideologist of reducing the weight of the car for the sake of speed, as well as "jewelry" chassis settings.
Although Lotus has always produced cars in small editions, its influence in the automotive industry is very great to this day: many manufacturers turn to Lotus to conduct finishing tests of their sports cars.

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