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Yep.
Chassis R6.
crashed in Rouen on 6/7/1968.
raced by Hill from the Italian GP onwards, won the Mexican GP and the 1968 Championship for Hill.
It is also the car that Jochen Rindt won his first race in; The USGP 1969 and also the last championship race win for a Lotus 49 at Monaco in 1970, again for Rindt. That was also the first race win of his 1970 championship.
quite an important car...
Chassis R6.
crashed in Rouen on 6/7/1968.
raced by Hill from the Italian GP onwards, won the Mexican GP and the 1968 Championship for Hill.
It is also the car that Jochen Rindt won his first race in; The USGP 1969 and also the last championship race win for a Lotus 49 at Monaco in 1970, again for Rindt. That was also the first race win of his 1970 championship.
quite an important car...
Chassis R6 and chassis R2 are the equal most winningest (it is a word, i just said it 
) Lotus 49s. they have 3 wins a-piece.
However chassis R4 had a 100% win record. 1 race entered. Pole position, fastest lap and the win for Jim Clark in the South African GP 1968. The car was then sold to Rob Walker where it did a Race of Champions practice session at Brands and siffert shunted it. It was taken back to Walker's workshop and it caught on fire whilst being repaired. the chassis was destroyed.
) Lotus 49s. they have 3 wins a-piece.However chassis R4 had a 100% win record. 1 race entered. Pole position, fastest lap and the win for Jim Clark in the South African GP 1968. The car was then sold to Rob Walker where it did a Race of Champions practice session at Brands and siffert shunted it. It was taken back to Walker's workshop and it caught on fire whilst being repaired. the chassis was destroyed.
austin said:
chevronb37 said:
Gives me chills...
Where there are chills there was always hope!
Doug Nye on Autosport Nostalgia Forum said:
...this is the most chilling thing I can recall seeing in my 40 years plus of being in thrall to racing cars: We found this -apparently hammered with a nail point - when sandblasting off the grime of decades on the carburettor body of one of the Auto Unions retrieved from Russia...
chevronb37 said:
Life Saab Itch said:
Rouleur said:
Peter Collins as photographed by Louis Klemantaski during the '57 Mille Miglia
Dare I upset motor racing folklore by saying that Collins performance that day was better than Moss' two years earlier? He was certainly on course to smash Moss' record...If you can get Chris Nixon's Mon Ami Mate book, It has a copy of the full page spread in a contemporary motoring magazine. I have it if you wish to have a loan of it some time.
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