Classic Team Lotus Garden Party 2024 - East Carleton Manor

[@grimson]

Awesome cars, a stunning estate, and a lot of very old posh people.

[@DrPittenstein]

Incredible what Clive Chapman has achieved, I hope Geely appreciate what CTL has done to maintain Lotus's illustrious heritage and how important that is for the Lotus brand today.

[@Americathebeautiful49]

As young lads growing up in North Hollywood California we were influenced by our Anglophile Aunt and Uncle to the point of learning to drive on a 49 MG TC. We could only dream of Lotus Elites and Sevens. In 1966 we finally met one of the heroes we previously had only read about. Jim Clark at the Riverside Raceway. Then another couple of years later we attended the Questor Grand Prix where we saw Colin Chapman and Jackie Stewart. The legacy of Lotus is so important to racing and sports cars only equaled by Ferrari.

[@yardelli]

Clive has done a great job in perpetuating the brand and maintaining the legacy.

[@mariojorgefernandes5722]

Fantástico, Parabéns.

[@meenboli]

A fabulous day that my wife and I enjoyed tremendously - felt very special to be part of it. Thank you Classic Team Lotus and the Chapman family 🙏

[@william-131]

It is all marvelously British. Love it!

[@cliveb9639]

Thank you very much for the video upload. Great to see! Brings back unforgettable and very fond memories of my time working for Lotus back in the late 80's and early 90's. I'm retired now and still a Lotus fan with two iconic vehicles in my garage!

[@richardhintonracing]

Superbly made film. The event would have been very costly to stage and an enormous amount of work - highly impressive .

[@thelittlelotus]

Nicely done! Shame there is so little footage from the Saturday event included in your final cut. Thanks for running these events though. Fantastic that my Little Lotus got to be in pride of place on the show lawn this year. Was an honour to be there again.

[@truebrit3578]

While it is true that those first dozen cars led to Monaco by the time Lotus got to the end of the nineteen sixties there were literally dozens of marks - and when those first charts of the lineage appeared. These days a racing team with hundreds of employees will produce one car for one formula. Colin and his small team could produce half a dozen cars in the same time. And go racing.

[@jimiverson3085]

Chapman's own work made his approach to running a racing team extinct. The 78 and 79 made it clear that aerodynamics were a dominant force in racing car design. But maximizing the yield from aerodynamics meant that extensive analysis of physical properties was essential.