Colin Chapman

GROUND EFFECT

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Colin Champman y sus Lotus

Ground Effect: The Dirty Trick F1 Had to Ban (AeroNEC · 3) In a wind tunnel in the mid-1970s, a team from Lotus watched something that shouldn’t happen. The tunnel’s moving floor — the belt meant to simulate a road rushing past — peeled up off its rollers and stuck itself to the underside of … Read more

LOTUS

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Lotus 79 de Fórmula 1 con efecto suelo pilotado por Mario Andretti en el campeonato mundial de 1978

Lotus and Colin Chapman: The Engineer Who Proved Light Beats Powerful “Simplify, then add lightness.” If you had to compress the entire philosophy of automotive engineering into five words, those would be it. They weren’t spoken by a professor or a CEO with an MBA. They came from Colin Chapman — a British engineer who … Read more