Colin Chapman, the wayward genius #167

The Intercooler

Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel

Cars, The Intercooler, Car, Motorsport, Supercar, Leisure, Automotive, Intercooler, Driving

4.8 • 868 Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel profile Coin Chapman, founder of Lotus and one of motor racing's great innovators. Chapman was not only a brilliant engineer but a superb driver in his own right. His Formula 1 team won numerous World Championships and many races, but his cars would often break before the flag and sometimes even hurt their drivers. Did he stretch his obsession with lightweight construction too far? And why did he allow himself to be caught up in the DeLorean scandal?

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0:36.0	Welcome to the Intercooler Podcast.
0:42.0	Hi everyone, welcome to episode 167 of the Intercooler podcast with Dan Prosser and Andrew
0:48.0	Frankel.
0:49.0	Now occasionally we do profiles, we take a full episode of the podcast to profile a very significant and interesting person from the world of cars
0:59.1	Often they'll be the founders as it is this week where we've chosen the founder of Lotus
1:04.8	Colin Chapman. This is hopefully a thorough detailed biography of the man because he was a fascinating character and he lived a really remarkable life achieved extraordinary things on the road car side and in motorsport of course as well.
1:26.2	So hopefully it's an interesting episode.
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