BDLJ
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Sadly, MTF
This is not the Lotus team of your memories.
Just a name applied to a constructor.
Lotus' F1 effort died in the mid-90s, with the name sold on. This message has been edited by BDLJ on 2015-08-24 19:31:52
I agree...
By: BDLJ : August 31st, 2015-05:51
...but ACBC - the brains behind the glories that were the 79, skirts, the 25, even the lovely JPS paintwork,etc, etc. Still to my mind, the most innovative race car designer - died over 30 years ago. The current "Lotus" team is a licencing agreement, as f...
hopefully
By: Arie - Mr Orange : September 8th, 2015-02:25
Lotus livery will say the way it is now. Maybe a yellow team could be added :-) It would be very good for the sport if more car manufacturers would join F1. BMW, Ford, Toyota and for god's sake Lamborghini please come and play along!
I seem to remember in...
By: 219 : September 8th, 2015-04:43
I seem to remember in the recesses of my mind that Lambo had a rather brief and unsuccessful attempt at this in the 1980's? Happy to be corrected, but it did not stick. But I agree that more firms should come along and play. There is even claim for Bugatt...
Indeed! Great photo...
By: 219 : September 9th, 2015-02:14
Given the start up costs involved in F1, and the advantage held by larger teams (Brawn GP was in essence an established team), I dont see it happening. Would take too greater change in the rules; and there are too many vested interests in the status quo! ...
CFRP
By: BDLJ : August 28th, 2015-18:42
Hi Anthony, It has been years since I had anything to do with composites, so this is just a rough guide. The benefit of CF is its strength to weight. Optimised designs for CF attempt to ensure that the CF strands are placed in tension ( the rope principle...