Colin Chapman, every mention
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Ferrari: What happens when you staple a luxury brand to a sports team? (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:35:51 David Rosenthal We're now in the era of Colin Chapman and Lotus and Aerodynamics.
Formula 1: Fast cars, celebrities, and B2B software (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 12:05 David Rosenthal So one of these newly unemployed Royal Air Force pilots is a man named Colin Chapman, who also happened to be a mechanical engineer in addition to a former pilot, and who
- ▶ 12:24 David Rosenthal So Chapman founded the Lotus racing team in 1952 with 25 pounds as his initial startup capital in a set of empty stables in north London.
- ▶ 12:59 David Rosenthal So in 1958 Chapman finally has enough capital together to build an F one car.
- ▶ 14:07 David Rosenthal Chapman was the first constructor to realize that building a winning race car wasn't just about adding more horsepower to the engine.
- ▶ 14:24 David Rosenthal Chapman had a great quote on this.
- ▶ 14:52 David Rosenthal There's one other very important element that Colin Chapman introduces to the sport during his time in F one.
- ▶ 15:04 David Rosenthal So until Chapman adds sponsorship to his cars, all the F-one cars had just been painted whatever color the FIA assigned their country.
- ▶ 15:22 David Rosenthal So Chapman, when he goes out in the sixties and finds a sponsor to, you know, finance his building activities, he paints his lotuses
- ▶ 16:58 David Rosenthal Chapman designed the chassis for the DMC-II, you know, like the Back to the Future car.
- ▶ 17:11 David Rosenthal The company collapsed and British prosecutors accused John DeLorean and Colin Chapman of each embezzling eight million dollars in government incentives that they supposedly were going to use to build the factory.
- ▶ 17:22 David Rosenthal Chapman dies of a heart attack once this comes out at age 54.
- ▶ 18:30 David Rosenthal So the UK contribution and the Chapman story really reflects this Wild West aspect of F-One.
- ▶ 23:21 David Rosenthal So back to Enzo and Ferrari, unlike Chapman and Lotus and the Brits,
- ▶ 25:46 Ben Gilbert We've talked about the Brits with Colin Chapman, we talked about Monaco, we talked about Ferrari.
- ▶ 34:35 David Rosenthal Who actually drives for Lotus for Colin Chapman, a driver named Jochen Rint to leave Lotus and buy a team together for themselves.
- ▶ 35:05 David Rosenthal And Rint Rent and Chapman were constantly fighting about the safety of the lotuses that he was driving Rint.
- ▶ 36:54 David Rosenthal That Colin Chapman has actually kind of taken the lead and pulling together back in.
- ▶ 38:22 David Rosenthal I mean, for God's sakes, Colin Chapman is about to nearly go to jail over a eight million dollar embezzlement case with DeLorean.
- ▶ 1:08:22 Ben Gilbert So in 1968, Colin Chapman from Lotus had become a really big believer that the way that his drivers could go faster in the turns was applying more downforce, so they'd have better traction on the road, and they put the first airfoils or…