@dlearl476 posted:He’s not the only one that died of “lightness.” Far from it.
He didn't die of lightness. He supposedly died of a heart attack, but there are those who think he staged his death (see the link I provided in the last post).
There's no dispute that his penchant for allowing his drivers to determine the limits of "adding lightness" killed Jim Clark and Joken Rindt.
... all that being said, he was a genius. My mind doesn't run along the same lines as his did, but I often check myself when I realize that the things I'm doing are trading weight for strength in places it isn't really needed. Strength (and more power) will always be my default.
A Speedster, and even more so a Spyder were the antithesis of that. Lotus took it to an extreme.