Car · Team Lotus · 1980

Lotus 81

Seasons
1980
Entries
0
Wins
0
Poles
0
Fastest laps
0

Specification

Chassis
Aluminium monocoque
Front suspension
Double wishbones, coil springs over dampers, anti-roll bar
Rear suspension
Double wishbones, coil springs over dampers, anti-roll bar
Brakes
—
Gearbox
Hewland FGA 400
Gears
5-speed
Tyres
Goodyear (1980) ; Michelin (1981)
Fuel
Essex
Engine
Ford Cosworth DFV
Configuration
90° V8
Capacity
2,993 cc
Aspiration
naturally aspirated
Power
—
Power note
—
Weight
—
Wheelbase
2,789 mm
Track, front
1,700 mm
Track, rear
1,638 mm

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.

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
80
Successor
86 / 87 / 88
Races (published)
18
Wins (published)
0
Poles (published)
0
Confidence
reference
Specification source
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_81
Register source
https://github.com/f1db/f1db