Goodwood Festival of Speed: Lotus cars on display As well as Moss and Surtees, other Lotus alumni at Goodwood include the evergreen Emerson Fittipaldi, who became the sport's youngest champion in 1972. Colin's son Clive Chapman's Classic Team Lotus outfit has supplied many of the cars at Goodwood, including an example of the Lotus 25, F1's first fully stressed monocoque body. It is also showing its gas turbine-powered Lotus 56B, unfortunately on static display only, as well as the innovative 86 and 88 which effectively had two chassis to circumvent the ban on the sliding skirts necessary for full ground effect aerodynamics - a trend in F1 also pioneered by Chapman's Lotus. Other truly great Lotus F1 cars include the 49, which marked the debut of the Ford-Cosworth DFV V8 engine that went on to become the staple motive force of the sport throughout the 1970s and into the 80s. Other Cosworth-powered Lotus F1 cars at the festival include the 72, 76, 77 and the beautiful 79, which dominated in 1978, as well as the final F1 Lotus to which Chapman had input, the 92 of 1983. The founder of Lotus died in December 1982. The next batch of six cars up the Goodwood hillclimb features many of the cars driven by Ayrton Senna during his time at Lotus. Goodwood owner Charles March has been piloting the 94T (for turbocharged) as driven in period by Nigel Mansell. Classic Team Lotus supplies the 97T in which Senna scored his first and possibly finest GP win in the wet at Portugal in 1985, as well as the following year's 98T in which Senna qualified on pole for half of the season's races. Former Lotus works driver Martin Donnelly has been driving the Lamborghini V12-engined 102 - a treat for the eyes and ears. As well as its own products, Lotus has become renowned for chassis and engine tuning on other cars. The final all-Lotus class represents the panoply of road, racing and rally machines that have benefited from Lotus know-how. Probably the most famous of these is the Ford-Lotus Cortina MkI, which featured a Lotus-designed twin-cam cylinder head that breathed a new lease of life into Ford's ubiquitous iron-block Kent four-cylinder engine. Another example of Chapman's innovative approach is the little Elite, which employed a glass-fibre monocoque bodyshell and a race-tuned Coventry-Climax engine to great effect. This car paved the way for numerous Lotuses that were equally at home on road or track, up to and including the Elise still produced today. No car exemplifies this better than the Lotus 7, with a 1961 example hurtling up the Goodwood hillclimb. More than 50 years later Chapman's design is still going strong as the immensely popular Caterham Seven road, racing and trackday weapon. This category also features a 26R, a competition version of the diminutive Elan coupé, and a Group 4 Lotus Europa from 1966 which featured a 165bhp Cosworth engine instead of the original's Renault unit. Bringing the story bang up to date is the Evora GTC racer, with a 4.0-litre V6 amidships. Lotus is less well known for its input to rallying but its 2.0-litre engine powered the plain old Talbot Sunbeam hatchback to the 1981 World Rally Championship. Visitors to Goodwood have also been able to see the new Exige R-GT, a tarmac-spec rally contender with about 300bhp at the driver's disposal.