Lotus rubs it in with more f1 innovation 25 may 1978

August’s Silverstone Festival will play host to a massive 50th birthday bash for the Lotus Esprit – we drive each generation to get a sense of what makes this sports car so special

We think of the Porsche 911 as being the stalwart of the junior supercar world, but after 28 years and more than 10,000 sales, the Lotus Esprit in all its guises was probably the closest contender. An

Design is not a democracy.” Such a bold statement, wonderfully out of tune with modern group-think, could only apply to a car as radical as the Lotus Esprit. These words were only uttered today by Gio

Whose team could change four tyres the faster? Ken Tyrrell and McLaren’s Teddy Mayer had £600 riding on it. The former’s crew – a gun guy at each corner, a jack man at either end – was said to have go

Difficult, changeable conditions hit Peter Auto’s Spa-Classic from 23-25 May in Belgium, so perhaps it wasn’t a great surprise that the experienced Oliver Bryant took victory in the wet, all-Porsche 9

This year’s British Grand Prix marks the 75th anniversary of the first Formula 1 World championship race, which was held at Silverstone in May 1950. Paul Lawrence looks back