YES I know the 2010 cars didn't have blown diffusers, at the time when I started work on the mod there were no 2011 F1 cars available for Assetto Corsa. It was mated to a Colotti four-speed gearbox with two gears blanked off.This is a sound mod pack which aims to recreate the sound of the 2011 engines.
In this guise, the 4.2 litre V8 produced around 400 bhp. Lotus replaced the Hilborn fuel injection with four Weber carburettors, which the British mechanics were much more accustomed to.
A quad-cam version was in the works but in its original guise the Ford Indy engine used a single camshaft, actuating the valves through push-rods and rockers. Halibrand knock-off wheels were used to allow for lightning quick pit-stops.įord provided a new all-aluminium V8, loosely based on the Fairlane engine. With formidable performance expected, the car was fitted with the largest disc brakes available. The later was designed specifically for use on ovals. Both a conventional and an off-set version of the suspension was developed. As on the F1 car, the chassis consisted of two sheet aluminium pontoons that were connected by various steel cross-members and double as the bottom of the body.Īlso carried over from the Type 25 was the suspension with wishbones and rockers at the front and wishbones, top links and trailing arms at the rear. This was done to meet the minimum wheelbase requirement and to accommodate for the new engine, which was over twice as large as the diminutive Coventry-Climax V8 used in the Type 25. In Ford, where an all-aluminium V8 was under development they found a formidable partner.ĭubbed the Type 29, Lotus' first Indy racer was effectively an enlarged version of the successful F1 car. He had raced a mid-engined car in the 1962 Indy 500 and believed that a lighter, more efficient machine would be able to break the Roadsters' stronghold. One of the driving forces behind this ambitious project was American Dan Gurney, who convinced Chapman that a mid-engined Lotus would be more than a match for the rather more archaic and much larger Indy 'Roadsters'. In fact, it was so strong that it allowed Lotus' Colin Chapman to quickly develop a machine for the lucrative Indy 500.
Its key strength (literally) was the revolutionary monocoque chassis, which was both lighter and more rigid than the conventional tubular spaceframe chassis. With the ground-breaking Type 25 introduced at the 1962 Dutch Grand Prix, Lotus had become one of Formula 1's top runners.
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