Late, great '70s F1 hero Ronnie Peterson was born 80 years ago today. After a childhood spent pushing the Corgi model along the carpets of Great Britain, Paul Fearnley finally gets his sticky mitts on a real Lotus 72 – the very same in which the Swede performed some of his greatest grand prix heroics. Worth the wait? You bet!
There are numerous cars greater than the sum of all their parts. There are few, though, infinitely greater. And this is one of them.
From its Unipart-sourced pressure cap to the tinsnips-and-blob weld guard at the base of the gear lever, from a bracket-upon-bracket layout borne of six seasons of no-peace-for-the-wicked competition, to the cockpit's hardware store of nuts, bolts and screws (crossheads, flatheads, Allens, press studs), Lotus 72 beggars belief. It's not the precision tool you might have anticipated...
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