US LOT Sessions

At the 1990 F1 Spanish Grand Prix, Martin Donnelly was involved in a life changing accident. Even Senna, at the top of his game was affected by what he saw. In this week's podcast, Martin recounts tails from his high speed life. From driving bangers in pub car parks while waiting for his father, to pretending he had a race licence in order to get his first few important race experiences. Everything and more, including that famous accident that cost him his F1 career. 

Gordon Murray is an F1 and automotive legend, he also travelled all the way from South Africa to Norfolk for an interview that didn't happen. In today's episode, Gordon talks of his experiences with Colin Chapman and his own Lotus collection.

Russell Carr is Design Director at Lotus Cars and has been part of the design team at Hethel for nearly 30 years. Today we discuss a things Lotus Design with Russell and his two lead designers behind the Lotus Evija, Barney Hatt and Anthony Bushell. What exactly does it take to design a Hyper Car?

GF Williams is one of the wolrd's top automotvie photographers. He travels the world photographing hypercars from all over the planet. When he is at home, he daily drives a Lotus Exige. In this episode we talk to George about daily driving an Exige, his most crazy adventures in the car and what it is like to live the petrolhead photography dream!

Alex is a British Automotive jounalist and presenter. He writes for some of the worlds largest publications and presents brilliant online content. In this episode Alex recalls the many Lotus he has driven plus his most recent Lotus based adventure in Australia. 

It was 35 years ago today, on Sunday 21 April and the 1985 Portuguese Grand Prix. Behind the wheel of a Lotus 97T was Ayrton Senna, just turned 25 years old. With the car at the absolute limit of its grip, he delivered a masterclass in wet-weather driving for the hardy Estoril crowd and powered to the chequered flag. Such was his dominance he lapped the entire field up to second place, finishing over a minute ahead of his nearest competitor. Today, we catch up with Senna's Team Lotus mechanic, Chris Dinnage. Chris shares his memories of the racing legend both on and off the track and explains in detail how the driver was quick to impress. 

Straight out of the Goblin Works Garage and into lockdown. Helen Stanley and Ant Partridge catch up with Rob to explain just how they would customise a Lotus.

Automotive journalist and podcaster Matt Farah from the Smoking Tire joins us to talk all things Lotus. Matt has driven more Lotus than any other US based journalist in the last 10 years. In today's episdoe we talk to Matt about his epic road trip that included 4 track days in California. 

Magnus Walker tells us about his lesser-known Lotus ownership history and why he really likes driving the Evora GT on his favourite road in LA.

Ant Anstead from Wheeler Dealers tells us about his record breaking Lotus Elite and the time an Elise saved his life.