Team Lotus

Led by founder and chief designer Colin Chapman from 1958 to 1982, Norfolk-based Team Lotus reshaped F1 engineering while winning 7 Constructors' Championships, 6 Drivers' titles, and 79 Grand Prix races as a chassis constructor. At the 1973 Spanish Grand Prix, Lotus became the first constructor in F1 history to reach 50 Grand Prix victories. Jim Clark drove the monocoque Lotus 25 and 33 to titles in 1963 and 1965, Graham Hill won in 1968 in the Ford-Cosworth DFV-powered Lotus 49, and Jochen Rindt earned a posthumous championship in 1970 with the wedge-shaped Lotus 72. Emerson Fittipaldi (1972) and Mario Andretti (1978, in the ground-effect Lotus 79) sealed Lotus's final championships before the original team closed after the 1994 season.