Team Lotus: The Formula 1 cars
By William Taylor
Several years ago we reviewed William Taylor’s The Lotus Book, an exhaustive chronicle of every model of Lotus car to that point, and with this new book he’s extracted the sections devoted to the Grand Prix cars, embellishing and repackaging them into a single-subject offering. For anyone who acquired The Lotus Book, this new edition is relatively redundant unless, of course, you simply must have both of them.
Essentially, Taylor discusses the salient aspects of each of the Lotus Grand Prix machines (from 1958 to 1994) separately, illustrating the essays with an exquisite combination of period and bespoke photography, and including relevant specifications for all. The book opens with a Foreword by veteran Lotus mechanic Bob Dance, and in the back there are also listings of every GP victory scored by a Lotus, all the drivers who may have raced a Grand Prix Lotus, and a full listing of results scored by the team prior to 1995.
For anyone with a soft spot for Lotus Grand Prix cars, this book, available for US$29.95 (£19.95) directly from publisher Coterie Press at www.coteriepress.com, is a must.
