Colin Chapman and Lotus 1 - The beginning. Performance through light weight

If Colin Chapman started building cars out of passion, that passion must have been truly epic. Not so much because he built his first car when he was just twenty years old while studying Engineering at University College London, in order to compete in those curious but very popular races in England called Trials. Many others had done something similar before him. But because once het set himself to work, he immediately realized with his innate instinct as a “creator of all things new”, that if everyone did things in one way, he could do them in another.