Lol

It is a nice livery

mi too, was amazing

I had a model of this car. It sat on my desk while I did my schoolwork at home. I found myself just staring at it.

It was the first thing that attracted me to f1

Best ever

@@Beemstar f2004 exists

Same here. I never got to actually formally study fluid dynamics but I learnt to fly, which taught me a lot and I was eventually involved in a research project involving the aerodynamic stability - or lack of it - in F1 cars.

those "garagists" dominated F1 and made the FIA and Ferrari crazy, Lotus and Williams where years ahead in terms of technology ( the F1 cars look like they look because of the Lotus construction techniques like the monocoque chassis, torsion bar supension, sidepods, front and rear wing and many more) so the FIA was always busy trying to ban every technology that would make the Ferrari cars obsolete (namely every technology that the before mentioned teams achieved)

Who had to spend the most money? Lotus, who bought their engines from Ford and transmissions from Hewland, while the could spend their time developing the chassis and particularly the aero, or Ferrari, who developed everything in-house? Who had the most to lose?

@@Salvavideocrack Mate, you have no idea about this. The FIA, as you call it, wasn’t even the FIA back then. Not in terms of control of motorsport. It was the CSI and the FISA. You should look up the FISA-FOCA war and then come back and talk about it. This wasn’t simple tribalism. Making rules is a thankless task and anyone who does it or is charged with enforcing them is usually pilloried, however well-intentioned their efforts.

@@thethirdman225 Yes, I remember that. FISA + FOCA = FIASCO was a pretty common comment at the time :-)

Mrugank Dongre TJI system + ERS,blown diffuser

Mrugank Dongre You would have to wear the suites like fighter pilots do. The amount of downforce and speed you would have would be out of this world. It would suck the track up no track would be a match for its speed.

SG A IndyCar history....*

@@talonsnowvlogs818 no my friend, Formula 1.

SG A no Mario Andretti is IndyCar not F1 my friend*

@@talonsnowvlogs818 the Lotus 79 was a F1 car

Talon SnowVlogs Andretti won F1 Championship my friend, i think he might even have won 2, maybe, im not sure.

E a Ronnie non dai una Lotus?

Ronnie...

Veramente? Il nome.....

He did. In the 1970s and 1980s he was probably the best test and development driver in the world.

He did indeed. He won in torrential rain in Portugal.

No, that had a snowmobile engine that acted to 'suck' air from under the car to achieve a similar result. Dangerous because it threw dust, rocks, and clag at following cars...thats why it was banned after 1 race.

@@philgiglio9656 the BT46B was never actually banned. It was deemed legal by FISA to race to the end of 78 season. Brabham chose not to race it, after pressure on Bernie from other team owners. Listen to any Gordon Murray interview about his design. The fan was powered directly from the gearbox using 4 clutches. The fan throwing stones back at other cars is a myth circulated by Mario Andretti in Sweden during practice. Murray, as an engineer, states that the centrifugal forces of the fan will throw any debris sideways, never directly back. It was not designed like the Chapparal fan car which had the separate snowmobile engine (although Murrays next fan car for 79 season would be based on that design).

@@philgiglio9656 you are confusing the BT46B with the Chaparral 2J

For different reasons though. Chapman didn't want the rivals to know what lotus had discovered to make the cars to fast, so started sandbagging to throw them off the scent. Brabham was sandbagging to not make people too angry, and Bernie lose his spot as head of FOCA. But it wasn't enough, he had to stop running the cars or the other teams would abandon their support for bernie heading up FOCA.

Closely followed due to team orders by Ronnie Peterson.

@The Father - With a wee bit of help from your American friends (in the engine compartment).

@@Loulovesspeed Also the driver.

@@thethirdman225 - Correct! Mario was one of just two Americans to have won the world championship in F1.

@@Loulovesspeed British designers at cosworth my friend.

@@No.Handle31 - That's right. Mike and Keith were mechanical wizards at what they did!

Not even close, besides the Leyton House March is the most beautiful car of that period anyway.

right, its what made me fall in love with cars in general, when I first saw her. I was 8years old and still remember

Really? That's not even my favourite car from that season.

I wonder who was driving his car with the tribute helmet of Ronnie

Ronnie Peterson var den bästa föraren. Vila i frid. :(

They didn’t ban it. This car was eventually retired when others started going faster.

Stai parlando di quel elettrodomestico con la ventola? Non farmi ridere