The Lotus 25 was a racing car designed by Colin Chapman for the 1962 Formula One season and was the first fully stressed monocoque chassis to appear in Formula One. In the hands of Jim Clark it won 14 World Championship Grands Prix and carried him to the 1963 title; its last championship win came at the 1965 French Grand Prix. The monocoque was three times stiffer than the interim Lotus 24 and half the weight, and the car was extremely low and narrow, with the driver reclined sharply behind the wheel, which earned it the nickname The Bathtub. It used a Coventry Climax FWMV V8 engine. Seven cars were built in total, numbered R1 to R7, and it was also the first Formula One car to use Esso fuel.
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The Lotus 25 was a racing car designed by Colin Chapman for the 1962 Formula One season.
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The unveiling of the 25 at Zandvoort in 1962 was a shock for the competition
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The Lotus 25 was a racing car
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Seven cars were built in total, numbered R1 to R7.
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The Lotus 25 was a racing car designed by Colin Chapman for the 1962 Formula One season.
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The Lotus 27 was a Formula Junior version of the Lotus 25 Formula One car
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