Grand Prix Rejects

Thanks for your replies East Londoner and dr-baker. I'm hoping that Autosport will create an online archive like Motorsport magazine, though I don't know how practical/likely this is. I'm aware of Ibsey's book, he's sent me first drafts of a number of chapters and from what I've read, it's very impr...

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I am writing a book on Team Lotus covering the years after Colin Chapman's death (1983-1994) and was wondering if anyone had scans of issues of Autosport magazine from that period.

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Neil White

After Ibsey kindly read the 1989 chapter of my book proposal, he raised a few questions which I'm hoping someone out there could help with: Was there a specific reason that Team Lotus ditched the bespoke Tickford 5-valve head for their Judd engines? Were any other drivers considered before Warwick a...

Thanks everyone for your replies over the weekend, you've certainly helped to give me some very useful background on the Judd engine which will add some worthwhile extra detail to my book. I will be at a stage soon where the chapters will need proofreading by someone other than myself. Does anyone o...

thanks very much for your reply ibsey, you've certainly given me plenty to think about and investigate further. I'm sure I read somewhere when I was researching the 1983 season (i think it may have been on the excellent website Counter-X) that Williams used Judd prepared DFV engines that year, so th...

Thanks for your reply Mario. I have read that Honda paid for the team's engine supply in 1989 to keep Nakajima in a race seat, but would they have had influence on which engine was chosen? Was the fact that Frank Dernie was recruited (seemingly at Piquet's insistence) as new chief designer/aerodynam...

Thanks very much for the replies to my post, you have certainly helped me out FullMetalJack and David AGS ; the info on Michael Bartels confirmed what I suspected, so thanks for that. tommykl ; with the suggestion of StatsF1 you have pointed me to a valuable resource, it wil help to add more detail ...

Hello everyone I'm new to posting to the F1 Rejects forum but have been an avid reader for a number of years. I am currently writing a book on Team Lotus during the period after Colin Chapman's death which covers the final years of the team: 1983-1994. There is plenty of information from various sou...