Motorsport com f1 news Banned Why Lotus 39 twin chassis concept was outlawed Motorsport Apr 13 2020 Lotus 88 1981 twin chassis concept Photo by Giorgio Piola The idea of the twin chassis concept was to have two sprung bodies the inner body responsible for the
Lotus Cars Media Site en heritage race cars Lotus Type 88 Lotus Cars Media Site The primary chassis was made from carbon fibre and Kevlar and included the engine and the driver s cockpit It was sprung separately and more softly to a second
GPToday net en news Forgotten ingenuity the twin chassis Lotus 88 GPToday net Mar 23 2016 In the end the 1981 Lotus 88 was to be Chapman s last feat in his career as a Formula One engineer It featured not one but two chassis It proved to be so difficult to
RaceFans 2011 07 01 lotus 88b f1 car banned Lotus 88 the F1 car that was banned RaceFans 79 to 86 Going Backwards Twin Chassis We Want Lotus 88 Become A Racefans Supporter Ground effect aerodynamics was the political cause celebre of 1981 Jean Maria Balestre president of FISA the fore runner of the FIA was keen to prevent teams using skirts along the side of their cars to generate enormous downforce and along with it massive cornering speeds Lotus s Colin Chapman had pioneered the technology a few years earlier and dominated the 1978 championship with his Lotus 79 But the following year he tried an even more aggressive development of the ground effect concept on the Lotus 80 His plan was to use underbody aerodynamics to generate all the car s downforce doing away with front and rear wings to reduce drag Wind tunnels testing showed the car generated twice the downforce of its predecessor But on the track the immense power of the ground effect couldn t be controlled The car would porpoise sucking itself down at the front then bouncing back up The team only raced the 80 three times and relied on the old 79 for much of the year Whil See full list on www racefans net Lotus referred to the 88 as having a twin chassis The core of the car was in effect a complete racing car The second layer was its skin linked from side to side by three cross members made from titanium The sides of the car including its skirts were straight Chapman doing away with the curved shape which had proved problematic on the 80 and 86 While the car was in development Balestre announced details of the FIA s latest attempt to ban ground effects by banning skirts and requiring cars to have 6cm of ground clearance Lotus developed a system to lower the car while it was on the track and raise it at slower speeds when it came into the pits to get around the rule But the row over the legality of the 88 began as soon as the teams arrived in Long Beach for the first race of the year the preceding South African Grand Prix having been reduced to non championship status following another political row Scrutineers passed the car to compete and de Angelis drove it in F See full list on www racefans net Despite losing an FIA appeal court hearing against the banning of the car Chapman made another attempt to get the 88 into a race by bringing a mildly revised B version to the British Grand Prix at Silverstone Some fans brought banners reading We want Lotus 88 The Royal Automobile Club obliged by declaring the car was legal Balestre hit back threatening to strip the race of its world championship status if the car was allowed to race and the RAC backed down While the row dragged on de Angelis and Mansell logged the only recorded laps for the car in a timed session Mansell s 1 15 992 was the quicker of the two but 3 8 seconds slower than Rene Arnoux s Renault Whether the 88 would have proved to be another of Chapman s designs that changed the face of the sport or another step down a technological cul de sac is a debate we can only speculate on 1 Banned Lotus Cosworth 88 88B See full list on www racefans net RaceFans is run thanks in part to the generous support of its readers By contributing 1 per month or 12 per year or the same in whichever currency you use you can help cover the costs of creating hosting and developing RaceFans todayand in the future Become an RaceFans Supporter today and browse the site ad free Sign up or find out more via the links below 1 Become a RaceFans Supporter 2 RaceFans Suppoter FAQ Goodwood Festival of Speed 1 F1 action at the 2016 Goodwood Festival of Speed 2 Lotus 43 F1 s only 16 cylinder race winner 3 Goodwood Festival 2015 F1 cars of the 2000s 4 Goodwood Festival 2015 Nineties F1 cars 5 Goodwood Festival 2015 Eighties F1 cars 6 Goodwood Festival 2015 Highlights from the hill 7 Goodwood Festival 2015 Cars from F1 s first 30 years 8 Minardi M189 Heroic minnows only race leading car 9 Raikkonen joins F1 stars at the Goodwood Festival 10 More cars at the 2014 Goodwood Festival of Speed Browse all Goodwood Festival of Speed art See full list on www racefans net
Ultimatecarpage com car 683 1981 Lotus 88B Cosworth Images Specifications and Information Even before the ban of the sliding skirts its twin chassis configuration was a solution for the stiff suspension that optimised the ground effect The complicated People also search for
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Autosport f1 news Banned The ingenious twin chassis Lotus F1 car Autosport The Lotus 88 was Colin Chapman 39 s ingenious attempt to continue Team Lotus 39 reputation as an avant garde pioneer in Formula 1 but his twin chassis solution was banned
Motorsport com f1 news Banned Why Lotus 39 twin chassis concept was outlawed Lotus had already worked on a car that utilized the twin chassis concept the Lotus 86 But with skirts a viable option it was never pressed into service as it wasn 39 t
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auto123 com en racing news F1 The stunning twin chassis Lotus T88 of 1981 Auto123 com Feb 5 2010 Only one car in Formula 1 history had two chassis to create the most efficient ground effect Unfortunately this car was banned from racing and never demonstrated its
Wikipedia wiki Lotus 88 Lotus 88 Wikipedia The 88 used an ingenious system of having a twin chassis one inside the other The inner chassis would hold the cockpit and would be independently sprung from the outer