{"id":752973,"date":"2010-11-17T21:04:23","date_gmt":"2010-11-17T21:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/?p=752973"},"modified":"2024-03-28T15:48:03","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T15:48:03","slug":"book-review-team-lotus-the-formula-1-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/book-review-team-lotus-the-formula-1-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"[Book Review] Team Lotus: The Formula 1 cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Team Lotus: The Formula 1 cars<\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">By William Taylor<\/h3>\n<p>Several years ago we reviewed William Taylor\u2019s The Lotus Book, an exhaustive chronicle of every model of Lotus car to that point, and with this new book he\u2019s extracted the sections devoted to the Grand Prix cars, embellishing and repackaging them into a single-subject offering. For anyone who acquired The Lotus Book, this new edition is relatively redundant unless, of course, you simply must have both of them.<\/p>\n<p>Essentially, Taylor discusses the salient aspects of each of the Lotus Grand Prix machines (from 1958 to 1994) separately, illustrating the essays with an exquisite combination of period and bespoke photography, and including relevant specifications for all. The book opens with a Foreword by veteran Lotus mechanic Bob Dance, and in the back there are also listings of every GP victory scored by a Lotus, all the drivers who may have raced a Grand Prix Lotus, and a full listing of results scored by the team prior to 1995.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For anyone with a soft spot for Lotus Grand Prix cars, this book, available for US$29.95 (\u00a319.95) directly from publisher Coterie Press at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coteriepress.com\">www.coteriepress.com<\/a>, is\u00a0 a must.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/PR201011-p2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-577247\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/PR201011-p2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1039\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/PR201011-p2.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/PR201011-p2-300x289.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/PR201011-p2-1024x985.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/PR201011-p2-100x96.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/PR201011-p2-770x741.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/PR201011-p2-293x282.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Team Lotus: The Formula 1 cars By William Taylor Several years ago we reviewed William Taylor\u2019s The Lotus Book, an exhaustive chronicle of every model of Lotus car to that point, and with this new book he\u2019s extracted the sections devoted to the Grand Prix cars, embellishing and repackaging them into a single-subject offering. For anyone who acquired The Lotus Book, this new edition is relatively redundant unless, of course, you simply must have both of them. 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