The Lotus 81 was a Formula One racing car built by Colin Chapman's Lotus team for the 1980 season. It was a fairly standard ground effect design with sliding skirts and the Cosworth DFV 3.0 litre V8 engine, produced a great deal of downforce but was sensitive to pitch, and was neither especially innovative nor competitive. Mario Andretti and Elio de Angelis used it in all fourteen rounds of 1980, de Angelis finished second in Brazil, and Nigel Mansell made his Formula One debut in it. It stayed in use for the first races of 1981 because the Lotus 88 was not allowed to race, and was then replaced by the Lotus 87.
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The Lotus 81 was a Formula One racing car
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The Lotus 81 was a Formula One racing car
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