Lotus co-founder Hazel Chapman dies

Born Hazel Williams, she met Chapman at a dance in 1944, and Chapman’s first car – what became known as the Lotus Mark 1 – was built around an Austin 7 chassis in a lock-up garage at the rear of her parents’ house in Hornsey, North London, in 1948.
She took over the development of the trials car and its Ford-powered successor, the Mark 2, after Colin was briefly commissioned into the Royal …Keep reading