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I think I ruined the quiz chain, but the answer I had in mind was Keke Rosberg's water cooled helmet he used to great effect in the blazingly hot 1984 Dallas GP. It was in fact a "cool cap" he wore under the helmet, but he complained that the added weight strained his neck during the race.
I'm not sure if that is the correct answer though as I fear that Mercedes ran water-cooled vests during the 2010 Singapore GP as Nico Rosberg can be seen wearing one on Brundle's grid walk. But no one ventured an answer so no harm done I suppose.
The Lotus 76 had an aerodynamic feature completely against the ideas of the far more successful 78/79, what was that?
And no, I'm not thinking about the original twin-wing in the rear.
the original 76 had very short sidepods ? or better it was very narrow you could barely see them as sidepods... The 78/79 used all width available to create downforce -they were formed as wing profiles and ended with endplates + skirts to seal to the ground.
I think Lotus knew at that time already about the potential of the sidepods when using a seal -skirt ..but ran something like a skirt -in brushform -only at the end of season race in Fuji in 1976 ...and they won ...ok that was a 77 -B spec- methinks .
If you look closely at that image fellow members of this great forum, there was a slot between the nose's rear end and the tub, connected to a "grill" underneath the nose, where the idea at the time was that it would eliminate "the air-cushion" built up under the nose and sending the imagined "over-pressure" through the inside of said nose and over the chassis.
I can still remember Ronnie reporting seeing glass-fibre blowing out of this slot under breaking, confirming that it worked.
Only a few years later, with the arrival of Tony Rudd, they realized that the real idea was to indeed get air under the car.
How I miss those days.
"I spent most of my money on wine and women...I wasted the rest"
xpensive wrote:Right, let's make things a bit easier, how many pedals did the electric-clutch Lotus 76 have?
Just two, if i remember correctly. The clutch was operated through the button on the gear stick, isn't it?
"Mi chiedete quale è la differenza tra la F1 eroica e quella attuale. Beh, è come se prima si camminasse in equilibrio su un filo sospeso a strapiombo sul Grand Canyon. Ora quel filo è ben teso in camera da letto, a un palmo dal materasso: l'abilità richiesta per camminarci sopra è la stessa, ma la sfida è cambiata per sempre".
- Stirling Moss -
"Se gommo tiene, io vince gara! Se gommo non tiene, io come bomba dentro montagna."
