
iracing.com Best simulator to date. http In the case of the Lotus 79, truer words were never spoken. Among the most graceful race cars ever built, the Lotus 79 also ranks among the most successful, carrying Mario Andretti and Ronnie Peterson to six wins en route to both the 1978 Constructors Championship (for Lotus) and the World Drivers Championship (for Andretti). Beyond its race wins and championship, however, the Lotus 79s ground effect design distinguishes it as one of historys most influential race cars. The Lotus 79 was the logical successor to the Lotus 78, a revolutionary race car in its own right. Although aerodynamics had played an increasing role in race car design since the advent of wings in the late 60s, the Lotus 78 was the first to apply the Bernoulli Principle (which states that an increase in the speed of a fluid in this case, air -- occurs simultaneously with a decrease in pressure) to the entire chassis. Just as lift is created by accelerating the speed of air flowing over an airplanes wings, so Chapman & Co. generated downforce by accelerating the speed of air flowing under their race cars venturi-shaped sidepods . . . and employing sliding, spring-loaded skirts to seal that airflow under the sidepods. The resulting downforce effectively pinned the Lotus 78 to the ground (hence the term ground effect), while generating a fraction of the drag created by the large wings that had become ubiquitous on F1 cars. Although the Lotus 78 still employed wings <b>...</b>
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