Colin Chapmani
Born May 19, 1928

Team Lotus’s 1978 Lotus 79 is the car to look up. Chapman led the team that developed it, working with engineers including Peter Wright and Tony Rudd on the ground-effect program that began with the 78. The 79 made better use of the airflow underneath, and Mario Andretti took the drivers’ title…

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