Lotus 79 1977 Onwards Haynes Manual
During this era, the Lotus type 79 dominated the races that it contested in 1978 and took Mario Andretti tot eh Drivers’ World Championship title. The team had successfully harnessed ‘ground effect’, a phenomenon that provided downforce through underfloor design rather than through over-body wings. While others were developing concepts in the same area, Team Lotus was the first team to harness it successfully.
This book charts the design and development of the Type 79, from the moment that Team Lotus realised how to make ground effect work efficiently in the wind tunnel with the Type 78, to its final young driver tests in 1979.
Classic Team Lotus was pleased to make available the Team Lotus set up sheets and the race history of the Type 79.
The book looks at the drivers that competed in the Grands Prix of the time, and details are provided for the history of each individual chassis.
