In car design, ground effect is a series of effects which have been exploited in automotive aerodynamics to create downforce, particularly in racing cars...

ground effect is the reduced aerodynamic drag that an aircraft's wings generate when they are close to a fixed surface. During takeoff, ground effect...

wing close to a fixed surface Ground effect (cars), an effect that creates downforce, primarily in racing cars Ground-effect vehicle, a vehicle which attains...

first time ground effect was used since venturi tunnels under cars were banned in 1983. In the previous cars, air led off the car in a chaotic pattern...

racing events. The regulations governing the cars are unique to the championship and specify that cars must be constructed by the racing teams themselves...

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and the Ground-effect Vehicle". Flight International. 5 April 1962. Archived from the original on 5 October 2015. Retrieved 5 October 2015. "Cars that Fly"...

car used in the 1977 and 1978 seasons. It was designed by Peter Wright, Colin Chapman, Martin Ogilvie and Tony Rudd, and was the first ground effect car...

commentator Murray Walker described as "appallingly bumpy". Most of the ground-effect cars of 1980 were designed in such a way that bumpy surfaces were barely...

badly. After Friday's practice, due to the heat and the suction these ground-effect cars were creating, the track began to break up, and the drivers found...

18,000 N (1,800 kgf) of downforce at high speed (See Ground effect (cars)). Gaps on top of the car (for example, above the front axle and the roof intake)...

many spots because of the hot weather and the extreme suction of the ground-effect cars of the time, and gravel was strewn all over the track from the cracks...

effective ground effect aerodynamics with their Lotus 79 car and McLaren were slow to respond. The M26 was revised as a ground effect car midway through...

spoilers, wings, and ground effects. A high point was the 1966 2E Can-Am car. The 2J Can-Am "sucker car" was the first "ground-effect" car.[citation needed]...

other drivers of the period, Andretti did not like the ground effect cars of the time: "the cars were getting absurd, really crude, with no suspension...

fitted to the bottom of the cars' sidepods that were vital for achieving consistent ground effect and regulated a mandatory ground clearance of 6 cm, in the...

Peter Wright of Lotus. The Lotus 79 was the first F1 car to take full advantage of ground effect aerodynamics. Over the span of its lifetime, the Lotus...

keen interest in cars and/or participate in the car hobby are known as "Car Enthusiasts". One major aspect of the hobby is collecting. Cars, especially classic...

Long Beach, but by now the car was being left behind by the ground effect cars of Lotus, Ligier, Tyrrell and others, and the car was replaced by the FW07...

Riccardo Patrese. After the ground effect cars were banned at the end of the previous season, the FIA mandated that all F1 cars be designed with flat undersides...

variant of the car, also known as the "fan car", was introduced at the 1978 Swedish Grand Prix as a counter to the dominant ground effect Lotus 79. The...

that an F1 car had to have two rear-view mirrors. The domination of the Lotus 79 meant that all the teams had to build new "ground-effect" cars for the 1979...

Lotus Cars has built tens of thousands of relatively affordable, cutting edge sports cars. Lotus is one of but a handful of English performance car builders...

78 and 79 ground-effect cars and neither Hunt nor Mass's replacement Patrick Tambay were able to seriously challenge with the nonground-effect M26. Hunt...

The Doppler effect (also Doppler shift) is the change in the frequency of a wave in relation to an observer who is moving relative to the source of the...

The Williams FW07 was a ground effect Formula One racing car designed by Patrick Head, Frank Dernie, and Neil Oatley for the 1979 F1 season. It was closely...

ground – much like a child on a tricycle taking too sharp a turn. The problem is exacerbated when brakes are applied during the turn. Ground effect (cars)...

promote products via the halo effect. In the automotive industry, exotic, limited-production luxury models or low-volume sports cars made by a manufacturer's...

rules, minimum weight of car set at 580 kg. 1983 Ground effect outlawed completely for the beginning of the 1983 season. all cars return to a flat undertray...

season, turning the M26 into a partial ground effect car dubbed the M26E. He enlarged the sidepods for the ground effect venturis, redesigned the suspension...