Car · Team Lotus · 1979

Lotus 80

Seasons
1979
Entries
0
Wins
0
Poles
0
Fastest laps
0

Specification

Chassis
Aluminium monocoque
Front suspension
Lower wishbone and upper rocker-arms, with inboard coilover spring / damper units
Rear suspension
Lower wishbone and upper rocker-arms, with inboard coilover spring / damper units
Brakes
—
Gearbox
Lotus / Hewland FGA400
Gears
5-speed
Tyres
Goodyear
Fuel
Essex
Engine
Ford-Cosworth DFV
Configuration
90° V8
Capacity
2,993 cc
Aspiration
naturally aspirated
Power
—
Power note
—
Weight
625 kg
Wheelbase
—
Track, front
—
Track, rear
—

A blank is a figure nobody published for this car. Where several teams quote the same number in a season it is usually the rule they were all built to rather than a measurement, so it is kept with the regulation limits instead of here.

Every entry 0 entries

No race entry in this database resolves here. That is usually a constructor that ran several designs in a season and no source saying which raced when, not a car that never raced.

Photographs

From Wikimedia Commons, each shown with the photographer and licence its terms require.

Lotus 80
Mario Andretti in 1979 · crazylenny2 · CC BY-SA 2.0 · unchecked

A photograph marked unchecked has a file name that does not name the car it is shown for. Most are still the right car, filed under the driver rather than the machine — but nobody has confirmed these one by one.

Where this comes from

Constructor
Team Lotus
Predecessor
Lotus 79
Successor
Lotus 81
Races (published)
3
Wins (published)
0
Poles (published)
0
Confidence
reference
Specification source
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_80
Register source
https://github.com/f1db/f1db