Frank Dernie: 40 years at the forefront of Formula 1
F1 Beyond The Grid
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Nelson's Lotus Active Suspension
Nigel had some really scary experiences testing n the lotus active suspension. He didn't want to have anything to do with it, literally that he he told me, i'm not going to drive it. So up to the point at which it won in monza in 87, nigel hadn't ever driven it. And then he said, where's mine? Of course, because nigel is a racing driver and he's competitive, and he saw it one and he wanted one. It was a problem because we'd imbedded the hydrolic pipes into the chase so that they didn't encroach on the coppet area. We had to do an absolute, massive,
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