If the Flügel hoch and the Röcke were kurz: Dieser Lotus 59B was a Rennikone of the Sixties

The racing sport in the 1960s-Years-War is overwhelming. And dangerous. If the Ruhm has power, and so the Mutigste unter the Pilots give for Weeks everything. Explanations who can after old and through fast cuts can cut dramatizing racing films. When the Formelsport-june Epoch War brought a special cocktail of Gefahr and Todesmut, he brought back a kind of legendary racing car of all time. Who the Lotus 59B with a high temperature (and in the Laufe der Saison 1969 forbidden) Heckflügel. There are a few things that happened among others from Jochen Rindt and Ronnie Peterson – a dam as the Formel-1-Star, the other starts a great career.

When he started in the 1960s, Lotus was in the camp a podium place in Formula 2 and Formula 3 when he spent the new Konkurrenz in Gestalt von Brabham and Matra. Dazu 1968 by Tod von Jim Clark at an F2-Rennen in Hockenheim to enter. After two vintages (1967/1968) he was in 1969 and connected with big court of the new Typ 59 B. Nur drei Wagen was recruited, where he has made a certain original specification (Thruxton, 1969) here. The construction of Dave Baldwin is based on a quadruple complex with aluminum bottoms. You will be able to see how the Formel-1-Lotus 49 positions the hinteren Bremsen directly in Fahrtwind, where the progress was quickly fully covered by the Felgen, in view of the Steinschlag, Gummiresten and others Geschossen zu schützen. Analoge zum Form-1-Lotus kamen zu Beginn der Saison extremely high, very fragile Heckspoiler-Konstruktionen zum Einsatz. After the fall of Rindt and Hill during the Spanish GP, which is an Aero-Kit with flchem ​​Heckspoiler.

In the Formel-2-EM of 1969, the setzte in Vorjahr was neither with Brabham, but Roy Winkelmann Racing Team in the Auftrag of Lotus two 59B for the Lotus-Formel-1-Pilots Jochen Rindt and Graham Hill. Darunter dies Anfang April und Winkelmann gelieferten 59B with chassis number 21. Good luck with your sailing in Thruxton. Während der Österreicher seine Siegesserie with other 59B-Chassis fortsetzte, verhalf #21 dem strebenden Talent Ronnie Peterson at the first two F2-Rennen in Albi zu Platz fun. Beim Saisonausklang in Vallelunga steuerte dann noch de Brite John Miles # 21 op de Platz drei.

1991 passed the time to Formel Atlantic and Formel 3 new Lotus took a year-long restoration at Peter Denty in Great Britain. Here are the stickers – see for the Jochen-Rindt-Show of 1969 in Vienna! – exactly, who is the Ostermontag des Jahres 1969 in Thruxton an der Startlinie stand! Before a historic Formel-2-Rennen was made of the Wagen in 2022, nor a complete one, the slow Chassisteile was taken over by Bremsen, the Cosworth FVA-Motor (1.6 Liter) and the matching numbers-Getriebe vom Typ Hewland FT200 zerlegt and einsatzbereit authorized. Nor im gleichen Jahr sah man den miraculous Monoposto first at Bernina Berglopen in der Schweiz in Aktion; 2023 then at Goodwood Revival and at the Jochen-Rindt Trophy in Thruxton.

Nun stht der Lotus with new FIA papers and petrol pumps is a new Verkabelungbei Motikon in Schweden to Verkauf. Prepare for Einsätze in the historical Formal-2-Series. With both Aero-Kits – sprrich with the heavenly Leitwerk and their conventional, aber bruchsicheren flchen Heckspoiler!

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