Silverstone Festival<\/a> in Northamptonshire, due to be held over the August bank holiday weekend, has announced four cars from the former Norfolk-based Team Lotus will be part of display featuring F1 cars raced by all 34 of the sport’s world champions.<\/p>\nThe showcase is part of a special celebration to mark the 75th anniversary of the Formula 1 World Championship.<\/p>\n
Nick Wigley, the event’s director, said the display was an “ambitious challenge that no one has ever attempted before”. <\/p>\n
He said: “Now, the star-studded collection is not only nearly complete, but it also features an incredible number of title-winning cars. <\/p>\n
McLaren, Mercedes, Red Bull, and Williams have already confirmed their support for the showcase, contributing title-winning cars driven by illustrious champions including Ayrton Senna, Nigel Mansell, Fernando Alonso, Sir Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen.<\/p>\n
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Silverstone Museum\/BRDC Archive<\/p>\n
Jim Clark drove the Lotus 25\/R4 to all seven of his victories in 1963, including the British Grand Prix at Silverstone<\/p>\n
Team Lotus was founded by Colin Chapman and recorded its first F1 entry in 1958.<\/p>\n
Based at Hethel, near Norwich, the team counted world champions Jim Clark, Jochen Rindt, Emerson Fittipaldi, and Mario Andretti among its drivers.<\/p>\n
British driver Clark was intrinsically linked with Team Lotus in its formative years, winning titles in 1963 and 1965 and the “iconic” Lotus 25\/R4 in which he won his first crown will join the display, alongside those driven by Rindt, Fittipaldi and Andretti.<\/p>\n
The festival will also feature performances from Natasha Bedingfield and Craig David presents TS5.<\/p>\n
The Silverstone Festival runs from 22-24 August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kris Holland BBC News, Northamptonshire Reporting fromSilverstoneClassic Team Lotus Mario Andretti’s title-winning JPS Lotus 79 from 1978 will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":["post-46382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Classic Team Lotus<\/p>\n