For every exceptional design there have been so many turkeys so let's start with the Lotus 80. For all Colin Chapman's genius this just went too far. Perhaps with today's wind tunnels and CFD systems a car like this might just work but back then, armed with a slide rule, a set square and a desk fan, poor old Colin just couldn't make this aerodynamically complicated car anything other than an also ran.
Although maybe it was the move away from the JPS gold & black that was the problem...
http://www.jpslotus.org/80/80-tgpsilv2005-1.jpg
Perhaps worth including some of the efforts which were succesful but outlawed by the FIA?
Although maybe it was the move away from the JPS gold & black that was the problem...
http://www.jpslotus.org/80/80-tgpsilv2005-1.jpg
Perhaps worth including some of the efforts which were succesful but outlawed by the FIA?