{"id":459895,"date":"2003-04-01T19:00:46","date_gmt":"2003-04-02T03:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=106687"},"modified":"2024-12-02T19:48:42","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T19:48:42","slug":"72-in-73","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/72-in-73\/","title":{"rendered":"Lotus &#8211; The 72 in \u201973"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='memberful-global-teaser-content'>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Going into the new season, they looked to be in a strong position. Their car was the fastest in the field, they had two front-line drivers \u2013 one the reigning Champion and the other more than capable of winning races given the opportunity. What could possibly stop them continuing where they had left off the previous year?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_698732\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-698732\" style=\"width: 1080px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2003\/04\/FEA200304-fea.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-698732\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2003\/04\/FEA200304-fea.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"792\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2003\/04\/FEA200304-fea.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2003\/04\/FEA200304-fea-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2003\/04\/FEA200304-fea-1024x751.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2003\/04\/FEA200304-fea-100x73.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2003\/04\/FEA200304-fea-770x565.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2003\/04\/FEA200304-fea-293x215.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-698732\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1973 Austrian Grand Prix. Emerson Fittipaldi stands stunned as his Lotus 72 \u00d0 and his chances for back-to-back champioships \u00d0 are extinguished by fire marshalls.<br \/>Photo: courtesy of the Ford Image Library, the Ian Catt Collection and William Taylor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Does all this sound familiar? In fact, it was 30 years ago in 1973, not 2003; the team was John Player Team Lotus not Ferrari; and the car was the Lotus 72 not whatever weird alphanumeric combination the boys from Maranello have come up with this time\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n        .memberful-global-teaser-content p:last-child{\n            -webkit-mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent);\n            mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent);\n        }\n    <\/style>\n<div class='memberful-global-marketing-content'>\n<div class=\"a07online-global-marketing-content-wrapper\">\n<h2 class=\"a07online-global-marketing-title\">No Subscription? 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Emerson Fittipaldi stands stunned as his Lotus 72 \u00d0 and his chances for back-to-back champioships \u00d0 are extinguished by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":270,"featured_media":817879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263,3766,1920,11272,261,18207],"tags":[11351,1961,20068,18231,11898,20096,20125,17140,11600,11602,604,17143],"class_list":["post-459895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-car-culture","category-history","category-lotus","category-members-only","category-motorsport-racing","category-special-feature","tag-motorsport-history","tag-lotus","tag-lotus-featured","tag-lotus-history","tag-lotus-72","tag-lotus-72-featured","tag-lotus-race-featured","tag-members-only","tag-colin-chapman","tag-emerson-fittipaldi","tag-f1","tag-special-feature"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Lotus - The 72 in \u201973<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Michael Oliver takes a revealing look at how the 1972 F1 World Championship-winning Lotus team watched back-to-back championships slip through their fingers.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/72-in-73\/\" \/>\n<link rel=\"next\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/72-in-73\/2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lotus - The 72 in \u201973\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Michael Oliver takes a revealing look at how the 1972 F1 World Championship-winning Lotus team watched back-to-back championships slip through their fingers.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/72-in-73\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Supercars.net\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Supercars.net\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2003-04-02T03:00:46+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-12-02T19:48:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2003\/04\/FEA200304-p8-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1080\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"576\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Michael Oliver\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@supercars_net\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@supercars_net\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Michael Oliver\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"23 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/72-in-73\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/72-in-73\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Michael Oliver\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/3fba5be511aa22dcfd9417670627d57e\"},\"headline\":\"Lotus &#8211; 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