Lotus 80

The Lotus 80 was a Formula One car used by Team Lotus in 1979, designed by Colin Chapman, Martin Ogilvie, Peter Wright and Tony Rudd as an attempt to take ground effect as far as possible. The whole car was conceived as one large ground effect system, with an additional system built into the nose, so no wings were needed. It appeared in British racing green with Coke bottle sidepods. In testing it suffered from porpoising, losing and regaining downforce as speed changed, and Carlos Reutemann refused to drive it. Mario Andretti took a third place in the 1979 Spanish Grand Prix, but the car retired from the French Grand Prix and Lotus returned to the Lotus 79.