Filmed during the 1973 Formula One Grand Prix season, If You’re Not Winning ...You’re not Trying offers viewers the rare chance to go behind the scenes with one of Grand Prix racing’s most famous teams during its peak years.
The film charts the story of the season as Team Lotus goes head-to-head with the Tyrrells of Jackie Stewart and Francois Cevert, discovering the mechanical woes, revealing team frustrations, joining celebrations and sharing the emotions of a season which would see Lotus secure the Constructor’s Championship in dreadful circumstances.
"'WE DON'T EVER get beaten in races, we lose them,’ Colin Chapman opines in this classic documentary, re-released by Duke, which charts the highs and lows of Team Lotus's 1973 season.
In particular, it concentrates on the battle with arch-rival Tyrrell for the makes' and drivers' crowns, with Chapman, Emerson Fittipaldi, Ronnie Peterson, Peter Warr and other luminaries contributing.
Highlight for us, though, was the in-car footage of Jackie Stewart's qualifying lap at the Monaco Grand Prix - well, that and Emmo's sideburns, the Brazilian god being at the height of his Planet of the Apes facial hair fad. A must-have for all Lotus fans." - Octane