This is a photograph that I took at Deer Leap
during the HSCC Pre ’71 Single Seater Championship race at the Historic Sports
Car Club’s Spring Historic Race Meeting at Oulton Park in May 1987.
It’s the 1970 Lotus 72 entered by Haslemere
Sports Cars and driven by Mary Foulston. It is chassis 72/R4 and belonged to the
then owner of the Oulton Park racing circuit (and Brands Hatch and Snetterton),
John Foulston. The Lotus 72 was designed by Colin Chapman and Maurice Philippe and
had the Ford Cosworth DFV 2,993cc V8 engine. Jochen Rindt won the World
Driver's Championship in 1970 with the Lotus 72
as did Emerson Fittipaldi in
1972, Lotus winning the World Constructor's Championship in 1970, 1972 and
1973.
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