What happened to the John Player Special Lotus Team truck?

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Jordi Casadesus Giner spotted the severely damaged Team Lotus truck while on honeymoon in 1972...: "I don´t know if these photographs may be of interest, but I thought to send them to you. On June 12, 1972 I started my honeymoon travel (I married the 11th) and in the village of Jorba, parked on the side of the road, (Nacional 2) I found this truck - LVF480E - of the Lotus F1 Team possibly returning from the Jarama circuit in Madrid and suffered from an accident. Since then I have kept these photographs, but I never could find anything about this accident. Perhaps some friend of this website knows any details of this accident?"

Editor: Well Jordi, we found that the Team Lotus was succesful in winning the championship of 1972 with the still young Emmerson Fittipaldi. The race in Spain was on May 1. The next stop was the Formula 1 in Monaco  on May 14. So our guess is that the truck - very similar or the same as the 1967 AEC Team Lotus truck but in new 1972 livery - was left after an accident leaving Spain after May 1 and was not recovered at least not untill you passed on June 15. For the year 1973 we see the same truck again in new livery... Finally we found at busweb.co.uk that LVF480E was rebuilt and now resides in Austria.... The current owner is probably Joe Willenpart who may know more about the 'honeymoon' accident.

  

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