Lotus 95T
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| Constructor: |
 lotus
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| Designer: |
Gérard Ducarouge Martin Ogilvie |
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| Predecessor: | Lotus 94T | ||||||||
| Successor: | Lotus 97T | ||||||||
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| Chassis: | Monocoque made of fiber-reinforced plastic | ||||||||
| Wheelbase: | 2775 mm | ||||||||
| Weight: | 540 kg | ||||||||
| Tires: | Goodyear | ||||||||
| Petrol: | Eleven | ||||||||
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| Driver: |
 Elio de Angelis Nigel Mansell
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| First start: | 1984 Brazilian Grand Prix | ||||||||
| Last start: | 1984 Portuguese Grand Prix | ||||||||
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| World Cup points: | 47 | ||||||||
| Podiums: | 6th | ||||||||
| Leadership laps: | 47 over 201 km | ||||||||
The Lotus 95T was a Formula 1 racing car from the British racing team Lotus , which was used in the 1984 Formula 1 season .
Technical specifications
The racing car was a creation by Lotus chief designer Gérard Ducarouge in collaboration with engineer Martin Ogilvie. Lotus finished the vehicle relatively early in December 1983, was able to test it thoroughly before the start of the season and confirm the good basic concept of the Lotus 95T. In particular, Nigel Mansell caused a sensation with best times and lap records.
Ducarouge had adopted numerous components of the predecessor vehicle when designing the car, which is why it was somewhat similar to the Lotus 94T . The specialty of the Lotus 95T, however, was that Ducarouge had designed two different chassis for the 1984 season, one for fast and one for slow routes. Depending on the route characteristics, Lotus was able to use the divergent driving characteristics of both vehicle variants. Mansell and team-mate Elio de Angelis agreed that the Lotus 95T had pleasant handling characteristics and was easy to move in the limit area.
The chassis itself consisted of a honeycomb sandwich construction with outer layers made of synthetic resin reinforced with carbon and aramid fibers . The Lotus 95T was powered by a water-cooled six-cylinder Renault turbo engine of the type EV4. It weighed 160 kg, had a cubic capacity of 1,492 cm³ and, with a boost pressure limited to 3.5 bar, produced approx. 596 kW at a speed of approx. 11,000 rpm. The engine electronics and ignition were from Magneti Marelli . The manually shifted Lotus- Hewland transmission had five forward gears and one reverse gear. The tank held 220 liters. The wheels were individually suspended from double wishbones . Shock absorbers were obtained from Koni .
sponsor
The main sponsor was the cigarette brand John Player , which belongs to the tobacco company RJ Reynolds , which is why the vehicle was black with gold applications.
Season course
Although Lotus had the best vehicle chassis in the starting field and was on par with the TAG-Porsche in the McLaren MP4 / 2 in terms of engine performance , both de Angelis and Mansell - despite two pole positions - did not achieve any race wins. On the one hand, this was due to the lack of reliability of the Renault engines and, on the other hand, to the tire compounds from Goodyear, which in some areas were inferior to those from Michelin . The best result was de Angelis' second place at the US East Grand Prix in Detroit . Overall, the aforementioned driver pairing scored 47 world championship points for Lotus, which was enough for third place in the constructors’s championship.
| driver | No. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4th | 5 | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14th | 15th | 16 | Points | rank |
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| 1984 Formula 1 season |
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E. de Angelis
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11 | 3 | 7th | 5 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 4th | 2 | 3 | 4th | DNF | DNF | 4th | DNF | DNF | 5 | ||
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12 | DNF | DNF | DNF | DNF | 3 | DNF | 6th | DNF | 6th | DNF | 4th | DNF | 3 | DNF | DNF | DNF | ||
| Legend | ||
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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 | |
literature
- François-Xavier Basse: Vehicle data sheet : Lotus 95T-Renault V6. An upward trend. 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 , p. 187, p. 255.
- Ulrich Schwab: Grand Prix. The races for the automobile world championship 1984. , Motorbuch Verlag Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 978-3-613-01023-9 , p. 26 f.
