Tameo Kits has produced the model of this fabulous single-seater (WCT 78 in the World Champion series) and Ricardo Moura has assembled it with great skill.Among the current crop of drivers, Fernando Alonso, Kimi Raikkonen, Lewis Hamilton, Jenson Button and Sebastian Vettel account for the most recent 11 championships between them, with Raikkonen the last Ferrari driver to taste title success nine years ago. Progressively, starting from 1979, all the F1 cars adopted the ground effect, with side skirts and profiled bottom, until in 1983 the Federation intervened to change the regulations and limit the use of these aerodynamic devices that had caused a sudden and generalized increase in performance, making the cars very dangerous.

The season also included the non-championship BRDC International Trophy. It featured the 1978 World Championship of F1 Drivers and the International Cup for F1 Constructors, contested concurrently over a sixteen race series which commenced on 15 January and ended on 8 October. The car did school, even if all the other Formula 1 teams took at least a year to discover the reason that benefited the Lotus 79. The 1978 Formula One season was the 32nd season of FIA Formula One motor racing. A new term was then used to define these cars: with a ground effect.Īt the debut the Lotus 79 proved immediately faster than all the competitors and only withdrawals due to mechanical failures prevented it from winning all the races on the calendar. The World Drivers Championship, which became the FIA Formula One World Championship in 1981. Designed by Martin Ogilvie and Peter Wright, he carried the aerodynamics research accomplished in great secrecy by Lotus in those years and partly already expressed in the previous model, the Lotus 78. Formula 1 World Championship, Rd 21, Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Yas Marina Circuit.

The Lotus 79 was a truly revolutionary car for its era. 28, 2012 - December 1978 Formula One drivers party of the year in. Nicknamed “Black Beauty” due to its proportioned shapes and the black livery of the sponsor “John Player Special”, it is considered by some to be the most technically significant single-seater in the history of F1. The World Drivers' Championship, which became the.

With its pilots Mario Andretti and Ronnie Peterson he won 6 Grand Prix that allowed the Italian-American to become World Champion and to the team to win the constructors title. Formula One (also known as Formula 1 or F1) is the highest class of international single-seater auto racing sanctioned by the Fdration Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) and owned by Liberty Media, an American mass media company, through its wholly owned subsidiary, the Formula One Group. The Lotus 79 is a Formula 1 car that competed in the 1978 World Championship.

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