The Lotus 49 was Motor Sport readers' favourite car of the past 100 years but it wasn't all plain sailing. Jackie Oliver, who is 82 today, tells Damien Smith about his own experiences
The greatest racing car? Jackie Oliver is not about to argue with Motor Sport readers, especially given the role the Lotus 49 played in his own racing life. "It's a very important car in my career," says the 81-year-old. He was 25 when he took his Formula 1 bow in a 49 – thrown into a maelstrom in place of Jimmy Clark, lost a month earlier in a Formula 2 race. As rookie accounts go, Oliver's takes some beating…
"The 49 was one of the first F1 cars I drove, before Jimmy went to Zandvoort with it..."
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