The Formula One organizers banned the Lotus 88 in 1981 because its fascinating twin-chassis design broke the rules, and Colin Chapman's son explains why in this video. Racing teams are always ...

Instead, it was a prototype for what would become the Lotus 88. It had a chassis inside a chassis, separately sprung to try and maximize the aerodynamic ground effect. The Emira gets the car's ...

the kind that infuriated the competition to such an extent that the FIA was inundated with protests against the Lotus 88. The sanctioning body decided to ban the dual-chassis technology ...