Lotus 100T
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 lotus
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| Designer: | Gérard Ducarouge | ||||||||
| Predecessor: | Lotus 99T | ||||||||
| Successor: | Lotus 101 | ||||||||
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| Chassis: | Monocoque made of fiber-reinforced plastic | ||||||||
| Wheelbase: | 2776 mm | ||||||||
| Weight: | 540 kg | ||||||||
| Tires: | Goodyear | ||||||||
| Petrol: | Eleven | ||||||||
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| Driver: |
 Nelson Piquet Satoru Nakajima
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| First start: | 1988 Brazilian Grand Prix | ||||||||
| Last start: | 1988 Australian Grand Prix | ||||||||
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| World Cup points: | 23 | ||||||||
| Podiums: | 3 | ||||||||
| Leadership laps: | - | ||||||||
The Lotus 100T was a Formula 1 racing car from the British racing team Lotus , which was used in the 1988 Formula 1 season .
Technical specifications
The racing car was a creation of Lotus' chief designer Gérard Ducarouge . Contrary to expectations, the Lotus 100T he developed did not prove to be a winning vehicle. The composite chassis made of synthetic resin reinforced with carbon and aramid fibers was essentially based on that of the Lotus 99T from the previous year and responded sluggishly or not at all to the various setup settings of the drivers. In particular, the car was certified extremely poor cornering behavior. A total of four chassis were built.
The Lotus 100T was powered by a 6-cylinder Honda turbo engine of the RA 168E type with a displacement of 1,494 cm³. At a speed of around 13,800 rpm, it developed an output of around 670 kW with a boost pressure limited to 2.5 bar . The Hewland manual transmission had six forward gears and one reverse gear. The tank held 150 liters. The braking system came from Brembo and the shock absorbers from Bilstein . Due to technical inadequacies, an active wheel suspension was not installed. All wheels were individually suspended from double wishbones .
sponsor
The main sponsor was the cigarette brand Camel , which belongs to the RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company , and accordingly the team was listed as Camel Team Lotus Honda in the entry lists for the season races . In addition, the electronics company Epson and the British textile company Courtaulds advertised on the vehicle.
Season course
Despite the poor driving characteristics of the Lotus 100T, Nelson Piquet in particular achieved notable successes. He came third at the Brazilian , San Marino and Australian Grand Prix . In other races he was regularly in the points. Teammate Satoru Nakajima had major problems with the vehicle due to a lack of driving talent and twice missed qualification. In total, the two drivers scored 23 world championship points for Lotus, which was enough for fourth place in the constructors’s championship.
As a result, the achievements were insufficient. As a result, Honda canceled its engine contract with Lotus at the end of the year. Team boss Peter Warr , who primarily blamed the bad chassis for the failures, fired Ducarouge and instead recruited Frank Dernie as the new chief designer.
| driver | No. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4th | 5 | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14th | 15th | 16 | Points | rank |
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| 1988 Formula 1 World Championship |
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23 | 4th | |
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N. Piquet
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1 | 3 | 3 | DNF | DNF | 4th | DNF | 5 | 5 | DNF | 8th | 4th | DNF | DNF | 8th | DNF | 3 | ||
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S. Nakajima
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2 | 6th | 8th | DNQ | DNF | 11 | DNQ | 7th | 10 | 9 | 7th | DNF | DNF | DNF | DNF | 7th | DNF | ||
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| colour | abbreviation | meaning |
| gold | - | victory |
| silver | - | 2nd place |
| bronze | - | 3rd place |
| green | - | Placement in the points |
| blue | - | Classified outside the point ranks |
| violet | DNF | Race not finished (did not finish) |
| NC | not classified | |
| red | DNQ | did not qualify |
| DNPQ | failed in pre-qualification (did not pre-qualify) | |
| black | DSQ | disqualified |
| White | DNS | not at the start (did not start) |
| WD | withdrawn | |
| Light Blue | PO | only participated in the training (practiced only) |
| TD | Friday test driver | |
| without | DNP | did not participate in the training (did not practice) |
| INJ | injured or sick | |
| EX | excluded | |
| DNA | did not arrive | |
| C. | Race canceled | |
| no participation in the World Cup | ||
| other | P / bold | Pole position |
| SR / italic | Fastest race lap | |
| * | not at the finish, but counted due to the distance covered |
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| () | Streak results | |
| underlined | Leader in the overall standings | |
Others
The three-time Formula 1 world champion Jackie Stewart tested the Lotus 100T for the film report Jackie Stewart's World of Speed at the Snetterton Motor Racing Circuit in the summer of 1988 . His judgment on the vehicle was sobering. On the one hand, Stewart criticized the poor response behavior of the Honda engine, which he countered with the Cosworth GBA turbo from the Benetton B187 that he tested for the same show . Stewart also complained about the lack of rigidity of the chassis and finally the cramped cockpit, in which fingers could sometimes get stuck between the steering wheel and the cover.
literature
- Jean-François Krause: Vehicle data sheet : Lotus 100T-Honda V6. The last chance! In: The large Formula 1 archive , Weltbild Verlag Augsburg, o. P.
- Anthony Pritchard: Lotus: The Competition Cars-All the Racing Type Numbers from 1947 to the Modern Era. Haynes Publishing Sparkford 2006, ISBN 978-1-84425-006-6 , pp. 196, 255.
- Achim Schlang: Grand Prix. The races for the 1988 Automobile World Championship. Motorbuch Verlag Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 978-3-613-01242-4 , p. 14 f.
