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Colin Chapman was very irritated. He was a day late arriving at the 1977 Belgian Grand Prix and during Friday qualifying, in Chapman’s absence, Mario Andretti had lapped 1.54sec faster than anyone else. Chapman took Andretti to task for revealing the extent of the car’s advantage. Everyone would be wanting to find out the secret of the Lotus 78 now, he scolded.
Mario Andretti set a blistering pace at Zolder in 1977 in the Lotus 78, but Colin Chapman was far from happy