Lotus 72 story on the telly.

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Yes, fair comment, Mark. But it was getting difficult to get hold of people who drove the car latterly. John Watson was one (1 race), Brian Henton obviously and Jim Crawford, but he passed on before we got to him.
I am still looking into the possibility of going to the US in the New Year and filming an interview with Ronnie Peterson's mechanic, apparently he has a ton of good stories.

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on loan from Classic Team Lotus ( http://www.classicteamlotus.co.uk/default.aspx )

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Chassis R9, methinks. Classic Team Lotus also retain chassis R5, which was mainly Emerson's car from 1970 - 1973.

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OK, someone has illegally posted an off-air copy of the programme onto Youtube.
You can watch it only if you all promise to buy the DVD version afterwards!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0mOhe9gA_I

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Glad you enjoyed, Cossy.
Respect to you too, Castex!

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......have just been told that my Lotus 72 documentary is up for a few repeat showings on Motors TV in August starting at 8pm on the 25th with repeats on the 27th and 28th (6.25pm and 8pm) and maybe a few more across the following days. If you haven't seen it, try and catch it.

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erm.......yes..........but there's another R5 in their collection too..........

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earlier this week I filmed an interview with former Gold Leaf Team Lotus mechanic Doug Garner, he was on the 1968 Lotus Indy 500 team, then moved across to the F1 team until 1971.
In this pic he checks a couple of dates before we rolled the cameras.


Click on the pic for a larger image.

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lads, just wanted to bump this thread as my doco on the Lotus 72 will be repeated on Motors TV from Tuesday next week, 20.00 in the evening, try and catch it.

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on again this morning at 8.35am and tomorrrow morning at 9am.