When Formula One First Used Ground Effect

[@VonBlade]

The Lotus 79, the most beautiful F1 car ever created.

[@jsonbjr]

I literally thought that this was a famous F1 channel because of the quality of the video. Nice work man!

[@emcity6752]

The fact that you not even have a 1000 subscribers is beyond me. Absolutely love your insights and well constructed mini-documentaries! Keep up the good work :)

[@PeterBrookF1]

Hopefully I will very soon!

[@The_Abhy]

Are you sure about that

[@SteadyPlaying]

@@The_Abhy he said 'hopefully' ya muppet, that doesnt mean hes sure. Go troll another vid.

[@adamn7125]

He reached it just 20h after the vid was released... (Currently on 1.03K)

[@ajwasp3642]

He's up to over 5k now.

[@frankhoward7645]

0:42. Never saw the underside of a McLaren before. Very interesting!

[@veturis3111]

The Arrows A2 is so beautiful 😍

[@burak6450]

High quality documantary, great job mate

[@jayb8941]

Brilliant video

[@rino_1048]

Was skeptical of the video due to low subs, but fuck me, this was great

[@JessSimpson1313]

Given how insanely smooth track surfaces are now and the improvements in driver safety I think they should bring back the skirts and reduce/remove over body aero similar to the 9X8 to get the dirty air issue back to 2022 levels now that the teams are saying following has degraded again this year.

[@qbertq1]

I started playing MtG when The Dark was just released. I've left and come back to the game several times through the years. All I can say is I wish there was content like this back when I started. Keep up the great work, and as long as you are true to yourself, you have nothing to worry about.

[@oliversanson6207]

5:57 i've never seen that picture before, pretty sure that's a bin lid with extra holes and sponsors decals - genius!

[@66PHILB]

It certainly is a standard bin lid. Brabham duct taped it to the fan to stop people peeking. Like any self-respecting F1 team, the bin lid carried Parmalat branding!

[@66PHILB]

12:43 Just because Colin Chapman called his Lotus 88's bodywork envelope a "secondary chassis", it didn't make it one. That's why it was banned. A nice try but totally illegal. More to the point, why was the 88's bodywork so narrow? Was it because Colin wrote the technical rules for Bernie's mooted breakaway F1 series - the World Federation of Motor Sport? Either way, the 88 was slow, hard to set up and ulimately it ended Lotus's chances of success in '81. Very nice potted history of ground effect.

[@Gizoisa]

Superb video, keep up the great work!

[@BazziFugazi]

Your channel is one of the most underrated on youtube. Fantastic videos. Have been binging them for 3 days.

[@leakycheese]

Brilliant videos! I’m really enjoying your channel - thanks for all the hard work putting these together 👍

[@The_Abhy]

Superb video. I like your voice. Can you do next time group B rally cars?

[@ondrejmachalek319]

great vid! i wonder how fast the fastest f1 cars from the 80s were compared to today´s f1 cars, considering how much lighter they were

[@PeterBrookF1]

There's a video on my to-do list covering that very topic!

[@AlanDoveKarting]

Brabham couldn't run effective venturi tunnels due to the flat-12 they were running iirc

[@chrislynn8746]

Great video. One minor inaccuracy, the reference to 'flexible skirts' is incorrect. They were rigid sliding skirts. After the 6cm rule in 1981, flexible skirts were permitted to touch the road in 1982. Ground effects were banned in November 82.

[@LGP82]

Nice video. You earn more than the number of subscriptions and views you have now.

[@shench.4430]

I hope this channel grow bigger Btw nc content bro

[@kelliebrooks9094]

Thanks thos is a really good update for me...I was to young to remember 70s an 80s F1 racing here in the USA...it got sparratict coverage much to my dismay

[@trustenbaker8766]

This is interesting I'm going to watch it!

[@stinkyroadhog1347]

From what i've heard, the Lotus 88 was not praised as it was difficult to setup, drive and it's aerodynamics didnt work very well. It was banned out of fear of its potential

[@gregidour7315]

Pretty sure Jody Scheckter was the champion in 79.

[@eitantovey2570]

the car at 10:12 looks like Luigi's car in Mario kart

[@kelliebrooks9094]

Thanks...a lot

[@huyra8019]

Rip gunnar nilson. Really quality driver but never got the ability to live long enough

[@Yosemite-George-61]

Alfa using a Cosworth??

[@ajwasp3642]

Too bad the Lotus 88 got banned.

[@KayoMichiels]

0:45 Wait... wut? After senna's death in 1994, flat bottom cars were banned and a plank was installed under the car that poked out under the floor of the car so that sufficient airflow was kept under the car, if the plank was worn more than 1mm on one of the designated measuring spots, the car would be disqualified.

[@stinkyroadhog1347]

The bottom was still flat though. The legality plank was just to enforce running higher

[@kelliebrooks9094]

Yeah the only trouble noise glory days are gone because our love for hy technology race cars is being squashed by budget restraints...oh well it just will take longer to get advancements

[@kelliebrooks9094]

How u like to drive following those cars dumping weight in the form of water going a 100 around a turn...not to mention visibility when the hits ur visor...dirty pool old man dirty pool