Zak Brown will slot himself behind the wheel next weekend at Silverstone where the McLaren boss will take part in the British Grand Prix's Historic Cars 70th Anniversary demonstration run onboard a Lotus 79. Brown is the proud owner of Mario Andretti's 1978 championship winning car whose radical ground-effects aerodynamics penned by the genial Colin Chapman transformed F1 at the time. The recently restored Lotus 79 was rolled out at Goodwood last weekend, where Andretti treated fans to a few runs up the hill. "There are so many cool things about the Lotus 79," said Brown. "One, it won the championship; two, it won the championship in the hands of Mario Andretti. "I...
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