HOW F1 CARS STARTED TO SUCK! The Story of the First Ground Effect Era (1978-1982)

Clever little pun, innit?

Ground effect. One of those Lotus 'inventions' that took the rest of the F1 world by storm. What had they created? How did it work? How do they copy it? But as with a lot of innovations in F1, they had too much of a good thing, and it had to be stopped. So let's look at how it all changed.

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