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Originally Posted by torque2me
There was another F1 team that did "ground effect", late 80's? The airstream under the car formed a suction and thus the grip was enhanced. Perfectly legal when introduced but banned, I think, after a season!
Someone on the forum might remember the team.
Kev
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Side skirts causing ground effect sucking the car onto the track first appeared on Lotus in the late '70s. Other teams jumped on the bandwagon until ground effect cars were banned in '83. There was also the Brabham fitted with a huge fan which sucked the car onto the road like an inverted hovercraft, see pic. It was banned after one race, which it won.
