malcolm E53 AMG
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There was a tech reg a few years ago that stated the car had to accommodate an driver up to 6ft 2" as Adrian Newey is notorious for making the driver sit in a ridiculously small cockpit as it affects his design
In another life I lived for a couple of years 100yds from Roger Clark’s garage in Narborough Leicester and being in my early twenties used to pop down to the salesroom and look round the various performance marques he had to offer. What amused me more than anything was the fact that unless you were less than 5’ 9” tall trying to get into a Lotus was nigh on impossible so Colin Chapman was another who designed on the same height criteria. There have been tall F1 drivers the one that comes to mind is Gerhard Berger