Lotus 72 DVD

......and this is where it all started. We filmed an interview with RTH back in 2006 (!) about his restoration of Lotus 72 chassis 6 in the mid-80's. I was just going to use it in one of my 'Yesterday's Racers' DVD's but Richard said why don't I do a stand alone DVD of the 72 story.....................and here we are today!

Edited by f1steveuk, 07 March 2012 - 11:20.

...................and if any of you have missed it, here's what I've done (with full permission) with the Team Lotus single of 1973 :

Edited by Gary C, 10 March 2012 - 10:51.

...................and if any of you have missed it, here's what I've done (with full permission) with the Team Lotus single of 1973 :

I think you're looking at the Lotus 73 Formula 3 cars in the photos as driven by Tony Trimmer and (I think) Emilo de Vilota (?).

Edited by Gary C, 20 March 2012 - 04:25.

Just a brief update, I have just uploaded a 90 second teaser for the forthcoming DVD. It's Peter Warr and Emerson talking about the new John Player Special livery on the car.

 Take a quick peek here;  

Just a brief update, I have just uploaded a 90 second teaser for the forthcoming DVD. It's Peter Warr and Emerson talking about the new John Player Special livery on the car.

Interesting interviews, Gary. Am I mistaken in thinking that the Stanbury-Foley Design Partnership, along with George Hadfield, had a hand in the design for the JPS livery on the cars?

Edited by Alan Cox, 04 February 2015 - 18:15.

hi Alan,  I'm afraid we didn't discuss that!

Nice story.

Great stuff Gary, can't wait for the full DVD

Really interesting to hear Peter Warr talk about Wisell's missed opportunity at Zandvoort 1971, usually everyone talks about Walker in the turbine car

Jon

Lads, just wanted to let you all know that Motors TV (channel 447 on the Sky platform) will be transmitting my short (24 minute) version of the documentary on Tuesday evening this coming week at 8 o'clock. Available all over Europe, don't miss it! It'll also be repeated a few times over the few days after that.

Recorded this morning's transmission for viewing later. Looking forward to the viewing.

Great stuff Gary, can't wait for the full DVD

Really interesting to hear Peter Warr talk about Wisell's missed opportunity at Zandvoort 1971, usually everyone talks about Walker in the turbine car

Jon

Really curious about Wisell's "missed opportunity" - what was that, exactly?

It was Peter's opinion that Wisell had a really good chance to win that year with the Firestone wets on the 72. But he out-psyched himself into thinking the tyres/car weren't up to it then managed to reverse up the pitlane after 6 laps and was thus disqualified.

Thanks Gary.  Incredible story.  I was always hugely disappointed with Wisell in Formula One (especially when he had shown how very capable he was in F3, F2 and F5000) and have often wondered how he might have fared had he stayed with Lotus for the 1972 season.  Fittipaldi was hardly a success in that last year of Gold Leaf colours but was a revelation in 1972, as we all know.

Anyway, ten out of ten to Motors TV for showing your excellent work.  

Anyway, ten out of ten to Motors TV for showing your excellent work.

Excellent programme, anymore in the Motors TV pipeline?

hi Stephen. For this round of repeats Motors aren't paying me, they pleaded poverty (again). When I agreed to these new repeats I suggested to them that I produce a series along the same lines as the 72 programme (cars, circuits, drivers, team owners etc etc) but I was again told that they have no money at all. So that's the end of that!

Motors TV are loath to pay for anything. When a friend of mine covered the British Hillclimb Championship he had to get five or six interested companies to pool resources to 'sponsor' his efforts. He was allowed to have on-screen adverts prominantly featured but he calculated that he lost somewhere in the region of £100.00 per episode. The whole thing took its toll and he has 'retired' from covering the hillclimb championship which is a great shame as the DVDs he produced were first class but one can understand why.

Wow, an update after 3 and a half years. Just wanted to mention that we are actually nearing the end of producing this feature length documentary. It's going to be a 2-disc set, the first, which will contain the main documentary runs for 1 hour and 55 minutes.  It features newly shot interviews with Emerson Fittipaldi, John Miles, Peter Warr and a plethora of Team Lotus guys, from the Team Buyer to Mechanics. The second disc will contain the 'extras' as I'm calling them. These are items that I couldn't quite fit into the main programme but are too good not to be shown the light of day. Things like John Miles explaining anti-dive and anti-squat, Beaky Sims and Herbie Blash on the aftermath of the 1970 British Grand Prix, a 're-creation' of the 1972 British Grand Prix using a rare BBC radio commentary and home movie film, Richard Hinton of this parish telling us how he restored chassis 6 in 1985, some personal snaps from Vic McCarthy who was the team truckie and sometime mechanic plus saloon car legend Dave Brodie giving us some memories of Ronnie Peterson, one of his best friends. There are 25 of these, the disc runs for just over two hours and 25 minutes..

Today we have been designing the chapter menus for this second disc, here's a rough mobile phone pic

 Click on the pic for a larger image.

The sleeve for the dvd box is being designed as we speak.

 I'm hoping to have the set ready for sale in as quickly as a couple of months time.

Oh, we have a Facebook page if anyone is interested, just search 'Lotus 72 DVD' and you'll find us. The website is here; www.lotus72dvd.com

 all the best.

Edited by Gary C, 01 May 2019 - 16:32.

I'll certainly be buying the 2-disc set.

Gary, Hopefully the DVD will be for all "zones"?

Jeff.