Jenks on talent versus effort The casual F1 observer could be forgiven for thinking that the Lotus 79 is little more than an updated 78 but he would be very
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From its introduction at the Belgian Grand Prix that year the Lotus 79 became the car to beat Between them Andretti and Peterson would notch an impressive six wins with their Lotus
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The prototype car 79 1 was on test at Paul Ricard during the winter and used the Lotus Getrag gearbox which is a further Lotus development story in itself This first car was never raced but provided the knowledge for improving the detail work on the second car 79 2
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The first issue to feature a Lotus on the cover that we could find in the archives was the July 1957 issue which shows Colin Chapman in his Lotus Eleven battling with the similar Climax powered car of Keith Hall The 60 issues we show here are all the Motor Sport issues that feature Lotus on the cover that we have in the Auto Archives library
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To the Formula 1 enthusiast in particular and motor sports follower in general Lotus 39 79 4 39 embodies a truly historic technological turning point in racing car design
Mario Andretti then 38 was referring to his Lotus 79 after dominating the 1978 Belgian Grand Prix at Zolder on pole by eight tenths he led from start to finish and won by one suspects it could have been more by 10sec
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Lotus 79 designed by Colin Chapman and his team was the car that won both Drivers and Constructors Formula One World Championship titles in 1978
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The Lotus 79 the first real ground effect car was a very very good package the first realisation that aerodynamics were becoming crucial and that you could make ground effects work Everybody then began rushing around cutting and shutting existing designs
It was Lotus joy day with the new Type 79 leading the now obsolete Type 78 and Goodyear were beginning to wonder why they had been getting in a flap while the Michelin men were wondering where they had gone wrong
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In his article on the Lotus 79 in the July issue of Motor Sport D S J states that the suction effect produced by the venturi like underside of the car is due to the fact that air passing through a venturi drops in pressure as it expands
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Brabham Alfa Romeo win under a cloud Anderstorp June 17th The superiority of the Lotus 79 ground effects car was severely The Vintage Sports Car Club s enjoyable Seaman Trophies Meeting was held under ideal weather conditions on June 17th The races from
Harvey Postlethwaite gave us the distinctive radiator on the cockpit front Wolf WR5 And that was it They were the only two ground effect designs competing with the title winning Lotus 79 in 1978 No other team had gone near ground effect despite its obviously enormous potential and despite watching the Lotus s performances through 77
The 79 was the better car in 1978 but hardly run away with the championship mainly due to poor reliability It is interesting to note that while the T3 was no match for the 79 the T4 the
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Fifty years old this season Colin Chapman has a knack of making the most complicated problems seem crystal clear 1978 was the year in which Lotus completed their three year 39 rise from the
Colin Chapman 39 s designs were always intriguing frequently innovative and occasionally hopeless But the Lotus 78 was a true stroke of genius which evolved into the legendary 79 I have chosen the Lotus 78 or JPS 15 16 of 1977 which was a bit after my time in Formula 1 my last Brabham being the lobster claw BT34 of 1971
The Lotus 79 is a Formula One car designed in late 1977 by Colin Chapman Geoff Aldridge Martin Ogilvie Tony Rudd Tony Southgate and Peter Wright of Lotus The Lotus 79 was the first F1 car to take full advantage of ground effect aerodynamics
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Jaguar s dominance was being eroded and there were 12 Lotus cars compared to seven E types While those battles raged all weekend the Japanese quietly slipped into the country with their works entries 10 600cc Mitsubishi cars for the saloon and tourer race
Lotus s 79 had harnessed ground effect technology so well in 1978 or so we all thought at the time that even F1 insiders assumed that Colin Chapman s cars would kick off 1979 with their sizeable performance advantage intact
Race wins and championship titles are an obvious place to start and admittedly when we began the process of rounding up the voices to fill this special magazine published by the team behind Motor Sport we had in mind the likes of the Lotus 72 Ferrari F2004 Porsche 917 Audi R10 and so on
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