border-color: #a31c38; .cat-42, background: #184173; font-size: 20px; } .cat-459, The Williams FW07s line up in the pits at Watkins Glen for the 1979 US Grand Prix. } .cat-text-141, .section-head.cat-text-141 { color: #00593d; } border-color: #00593d; } background: #e54e53; .block-head.cat-text-458 .heading { .cat-5260, The ground effect car is capable of speeds in excess of 230 mph. border-bottom-color: #184173; } As I mentioned earlier, driving this car was a fantastic experience, but I really came away wondering if any of us “amateurs” are really qualified to race these creatures? border-color: #184173; } .navigation .menu > .menu-cat-88:hover > a, .navigation .menu > .menu-cat-88.current-menu-item > a, .navigation .menu > .menu-cat-88.current-menu-parent > a { } * sequence come from older emoji standards. .navigation .menu > .menu-cat-16:hover > a, .navigation .menu > .menu-cat-16.current-menu-item > a, .navigation .menu > .menu-cat-16.current-menu-parent > a { An underbody underglow kit is also commonly known as ground effects lighting and it is an aesthetic customization you bestow upon your vehicle long after you drive it out of the car dealer’s showroom. .cat-title.cat-274, if ( 'complete' === document.readyState ) { What this does in reality is drop the roll center below ground. } border-color: #a31c38; .block-head.cat-text-178 { border-bottom-color: #184173; } } .cat-256, settings.supports.flag; On California Speedway’s banked oval, I was amazed at how solid and planted the car felt. border-bottom-color: #00593d; PO Box 4536, 10B Tussock Lane, Christchurch, New Zealand | Phone +64 3 379 9174 | email: ernie@groundeffect.co.nz .nav-light .menu li li:hover > a, .woocommerce-page .woocommerce-info, }; } } .cat-title, The French squad had been in F1 for three years and was roundly viewed as low-budget and not very well organised. .navigation .menu > .menu-cat-70:hover > a, .navigation .menu > .menu-cat-70.current-menu-item > a, .navigation .menu > .menu-cat-70.current-menu-parent > a { } .cat-273, border-bottom-color: #184173; border-bottom-color: #a31c38; } border-bottom-color: #184173; } background: #a31c38; While these are decorative, they visually blend together with the functional storage compartments of the house batteries on the passenger side, and the large storage compartment as well as sewer and water access panels on the drivers side. } } .navigation .menu > .menu-cat-36:hover > a, .navigation .menu > .menu-cat-36.current-menu-item > a, .navigation .menu > .menu-cat-36.current-menu-parent > a { } This helped prevent these cars from rising up off the pavement and rolling over while moving at high speeds around corners. } background: #00593d; } } .navigation .menu > .menu-cat-268:hover > a, .navigation .menu > .menu-cat-268.current-menu-item > a, .navigation .menu > .menu-cat-268.current-menu-parent > a { background: #00593d; The Toyota has massive tunnels underneath, which can generate huge amounts of downforce at high speed. The Lotus 79s of Mario Andretti and Ronnie Peterson streak clear in the 1978 Dutch Grand Prix. } border-bottom-color: #a31c38; The Lotus 78 was the first competitive ‘ground effect’ Formula 1 design. .block-head.cat-text-230 .heading { } .block-head.cat-text-224 { border-bottom-color: #184173; border-color: #d4301a; border-color: #e67e22; However, if anything disrupted the seal of the underside of the car with the track—i.e., a skirt failure, a puncture, or an extreme change in the attitude of the car— the underside seal was broken and ALL ground effect-generated downforce was immediately lost. .cat-title.cat-36, border-color: #184173; .cat-text-229, .section-head.cat-text-229 { color: #184173; } .nav-light .menu .sub-nav li.current-menu-item, The Mercedes-AMG Project One, a road car featuring an F1-derived power unit, has been revealed by the manufacturer at the International Motor Show in Frankfurt. .review-box .bar, border-color: #184173; .cat-37, .navigation .menu > .menu-cat-71:hover > a, .navigation .menu > .menu-cat-71.current-menu-item > a, .navigation .menu > .menu-cat-71.current-menu-parent > a { Piquet still though took the title that year. .nav-light .mega-menu .sub-nav li:hover > a, border-color: #00593d; border-color: #184173; .block-head.cat-text-276 .heading { .block-head.cat-text-278 { And Formula 1 was transformed. background: #a31c38; Of course, the technique continued to be used for many more years in Indy cars and Group C/GTP cars, which brings me to the point of my little historical detour. .cat-74, } White noise of a driving car and exotic views of nature. } .block-head.cat-text-37 { .cat-title.cat-33, background: #184173; .cat-77, border-color: #a31c38; border-bottom-color: #00593d; It was borne of an idea of making the entire car function as one giant wing to increase downforce. .cat-title.cat-453, } .cat-458, background: #184173; .block-head.cat-text-225 .heading { Eventually, the demon needed to be reigned in, and by 1982, sliding skirts were outlawed and soon thereafter cars were required to have “flat bottoms” so that no one could harness the incredible power of the airflow underneath a Formula One car. var src, ready, ii, tests; .woocommerce #respond input#submit:hover, width: auto; background: #184173; } .navigation .menu > .menu-cat-141:hover > a, .navigation .menu > .menu-cat-141.current-menu-item > a, .navigation .menu > .menu-cat-141.current-menu-parent > a { var rendered2 = canvas.toDataURL(); display: none; /* span, var rendered1 = canvas.toDataURL(); border-bottom-color: #00593d; .cat-233, border-color: #00593d; } Lotus kingpin Colin Chapman chose a clean-sheet approach to turn matters around. 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