Chris Harris vs the Lotus 79 | Top Gear: Series 27
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- Chris slides into the Lotus 79, and then slides the Lotus 79 around the track - including one lap with the legendary aero 'skirts' down. Subscribe to Top Gear for more videos: bit.ly/SubscribeToTopGear
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The biggest problem with Top Gear today (and car shows in general) is that there's only one Chris Harris.
I think Henry Catchpole is great as well.
You need to be somebody for Lotus to hand you the keys of their most famous cars and tell you to go have fun. This car is the ancestral grandmother of the rest of F1 because of Chapman's ground effects. Porsche also let him loose on Weissach in their LeMans winning 956.
MravacKid I couldnt take extra ”what a machine” comments which appears to happen quite often 😅✌️
which is better than the old farts because unlike them, he can actually drive but has not got the ego of a supertanker like CLarky.
@@alifted8271 baited lol...
This dude really living all our dreams
For me the most beautiful car and most iconic John Player Special livery.
Sorry mate, but NO.
The Lotus 98T from 1986 of Ayrton Senna was one of the most beautiful in history.
@@gebezeira Unfortunately it wasn't anywhere near as competitive as the Lotus 79 was. Also, had Senna never driven the 98T it wouldn't have been noticed at all. That aside, the 79 was just incredibly sleek and looked aerodynamically right.
Lotus 79 the most beautiful and dominant lotus in formula one
Indeed! It has everything. Design, engineering, livery, success.
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@@gebezeira both of you are wrong, in terms of John player Livery it goes: Lotus 87 as the most beautiful, then the 79, then the 98t. The 79 is an extremely close second but it’s just not as perfect as the 87.
The utter joy and exhilaration in Chris Harris’ voice as he went round that corner with the skirts down brought a tear to my eye
The only occasion you want “skirts down”
Actually, its the second occasion. Any self respecting man should know what I'm on about.
Carry on.
There's more than one way to skin a cat.
One of the most beautiful F1 cars of all time.
I love these sorts of historical pieces
Had the model as a kid! Didn’t even know the importance! Lol
Had the AFX G PLUS fast
Watching Chris have fun with the Lotus 79 was great, but seeing Mario hold forth on it ... *PRICELESS.*
Ground effect was so simple, yet so revolutionary... its legendary in itself!
Ground effect wasn’t really that simple. The concept was but the execution was a different matter.
The sound is just mesmerising and really musical too.
Yeah, compared to this current F1 doesn't appeal at all.
Too much buttons to fiddle about with and setup the car for each corner, with looks that don't differentiate enough optically between brands due to overregulation and sound that is just a bore to the ears and mind as it doesn't excite at all.
Give me that analog nature of these monsters that look like go-karts on steroids and with a mighty rawr.
Due to minimum controls and no aids (powersteering, abs, etc) and manual shifting it really spoke to the imagination about how in the world these drivers could tame these beasts, when most drivers at the time had trouble parking their cars without powersteering. So seeing people like Senna driving Monaco one handed for example... they knew how crazy that was.
@@LogiForce86previous era cars were all raw and driver driven today's cars are all electronics no true racing spirits.
The sound of the gear change is climactic.
Cosworth DFV flat plane V8. GLORIOUS.
Chris is living our dreams
When you really love cars it has a profound effect on you..your senses. I literally cried hearing the joy and the thrill in Chris Harris' voice.
It's not just a car. It's a passion!
When all you can hear is the engine roaring, the caption service thinks it's [applause] :)
I'd like him try the brabham bt46b also known as the fan car
2G standing start acceleration, looool
@@Shadowboost No different from any other F1 car of the era. The braking and cornering speeds of this thing, on the other hand, were off the charts.
Slick tyres and wet conditions to run with that beast? 😄
jon doe Check how the brits spell tyres. I get it. It throws me off too as a Canuck but neither of you are wrong within your own shores.
@@joshtiel2980 that's right! I'm not native speaker but I checked the dictionary. Thanks!
This man is literally keeping top gear alive
singlehandedly
WHO DIDN'T SMILE WHILST WATCHING THIS.
I miss Ronnie Peterson RIP
We definitely need more people like Chris Harris. He is funny, entertaining, and tells it just like it is. Very much like Jeremy Clarkson in all those respects.
I got serious goosebumps watching this.
The just name “John Player Special” is probably the coolest thing I’ve ever seen on a car
This video is an ode to joy. The best piece of automotive content I have ever -ever- watched.
Cheers, good for you. And good on Lotus for realizing the importance of allowing such things and realizing the impact that their past can and should have on the way people think about them and their cars now.
Beautiful cinematography.
Absolute legend. Chris Harris. Lotus 79. It gets no better.
I know I'm a bit of an old codger these days, but when I think of F1 racing cars then cars like the Lotus 79 are what I think of. Pure lines and simple aerodynamics.
His Goosebumps had Goosebumps that day, for sure.
Almost unbearably wonderful! Never get enough of this car. Mario, the livery, the performance. Thanks Chris lucky you man!
Another great day to be Chris Harris!
Wow! Love you Chris Harris!
Chris Harris, was very happy driving that car. Congratulations to him. This was enjoyable to watch.
Production quality on this is through the roof!
Lotus per sempre! Thank you Colin.
Grazie Mario Andretti
@@enzocasella3153 No Colin Chapman
best video explaining the ground effect of the 70-80s
Outstanding....
Great job !
There has to be more of this!!!
F1 ten years behind American Jim Hall, who invented the skirts and the first fan car for Can-Am racing in 1970. But glad you Brits finally got around it! Jim Hall pioneered wings, movable aerodynamic devices, side-mounted radiators, semi-automatic transmissions and composite monocoque chassis structures. He's still alive in Texas if Gordon Murray wants to drive one his new fan cars over and say howdy.
There's not many things that give me goose bumps from a video but every time I see and hear this thing it makes the hairs on my arms stand up.
What a beautiful design...iconic
Those developed DFV's were around 485 to 500 hp and the Lotus 79 is still the greatest F1 car ever made!
TG team needs to upload the entire full length film, I remember it was super interesting!
TG team needs to go bankrupt and give their job to someone who actually cares about cars instead of money.
Absolutely cracking driver and personality, has made the new Top Gear all what it is now !
That is the iconic sound of F1. An engine so good it was used for 18 years in F1.
Wow. Just wow.
The most Beautiful Lotus F1..ever
a legend never die,
the mans who are behind this car they are the greatest
This was the era i first got into F1 and the Lotus was the coolest car out there. I feel your joy!
Thank you for living my dreams. !!
Great film
I love how these comments are 1 minute old
They don't even have to watch the video, they already have their comment prepared - "I miss the old Top Gear", "Clarkson, Hammond and May were better", "This is not Top Gear", and so on...
Lotus have 3 of the greatest if not the greatest 3 F1 liveries of all time.
the only episode I'll ever watch on top gear US
That dfv is amazing
Incredible 😎🏁🤙 lotus 79 the car of adventurers, and brave
Up there with the McLaren MP4/4 for me :)
Sensational
It's so cool this video was posted a day after The Smoking Tire podcast with Chris Harris, and the Donut Media Up To Speed on the Lotus brand.
I think the John Player Special must be the most famous race car ever.
At this point the BBC should just give Chris Harris his own show
Hey Chris Harris nice racing. 👋👋👍👍🔥🔥❤😆🙌👌
Paddy, Flintoff & Harris are doing a great job.
The sound of the Cossie is just glorious
Oke of the Most beautiful F1 Cars
Lotus should make a replica of this car for customers a track day special better then any atom.
By looking at the title I thought that there would be a race between Chris Harris and the Lotus 79
Black and Gold JPS LOTUS. ❤️
Just saw this beauty in person at the Legends of Speed exhibit at the Phoenix Art Museum
Lotus ❤
Outstanding Chris.... winning at youtube
It's a lovely Sunday from Paris 🤟💀
I have one the rear tires from that era of F1 in my room, boy are they heavy
Chills!!
Still got my die cast black and gold beauty. 👍
DFV ❤️❤️
My favorite motoring journalist driving one of my favorite F1 cars? Why yes thank you.
There was a JPS Lotus 79 on display at the Indy Museum this summer commemorating Mario's 50th anniv of his Indy win. Such a cool car. 👍
Lotus sure has some big marbles letting CH drive their car on slicks on a wet track. Kudos to them. I wouldn't if it was mine.
possibly the coolest Lotus ever made?
Say that to the Lotus 98t
Lotus 98T was maybe the most brutal, with unrestricted turbo charged Renault power ... but the 78 and 79 were a revolution ushering in ground effects, so far advanced that they won 7 and 6 races in their respective seasons, a best not repeated by Lotus, those were the glory years.
When considering the idea of coolest Lotus ever made, my criteria is predicated upon how revolutionary/radical the car is, considering the genius that was Colin Chapman. Therefore, I'd have to go with any of the Lotus 56, 79 or 88. The Lotus 56, well, was powered by a gas turbine engine of all things, four wheel drive, nearly won the Indy 500 and its wedge-shaped nose would forever change how open wheel cars would be designed. I mention the Lotus 79 for the obvious reason, ground effect, and the Lotus 88 because, while it never raced and we'll never know how it would have performed against its contemporaries, the fact that Chapman had the idea to build a car featuring two seperate chassis to exploit a regulatory loophole is just awesome in my opinion. Shame the FIA didn't see things that way.
@@wheresaldocanoe Lotus 25 - the first monocoque in F1.
Lotus 49 - the first with the engine as an integral part of the chassis
Lotus 72 - the first car where the aerodynamics dictated how the car was designed as a whole.
All three milestones in racing car design and which were templates for all subsequent F1 cars from other manufacturers.
Sin dudas uno de los autos de Formula 1 mas hermosos de la historia,sino el mas hermoso.
Lotus F1 1979 - A cut above !!
Awesome...... Lotus is still a shadow of its former self, but there is hope. Chapman was a genius, my favorite Chapmanism, adding power makes you faster in the straights, reducing weight makes you faster all around the track. He completely slammed the "no replacement for displacement" mindset.
To be fair the Lotus car brand is in better shape than ever before. Back in Chapman's days Lotus was a small operation which managed to attract big manufacturers into F1 - like Ford, and pioneered cigarette sponsorship deals to market a brand. I mean Chapman was even involved with the infamous DeLorean deal. Economically Lotus was never in a particularly great position during the Chapman days but it bagged a lot of money from winning constructors' championships.
And let's not forget that it was Lotus, Chapman and Jim Clark which defeated the American USAC elite at Indianapolis in 1965, making Formula 1 the top racing series in the world (as far as technical prowess was concerned).
If we're lucky Geely will consider a F1 entry with Lotus. Any brand which revives Lotus in F1 automatically earns all its heritage and former victories.
There was a lot more to it than that. By the time the 79 became a reality, Chapman was taking a backseat to his engineering team. The ground effect idea came from some research done by Peter Wright. Chapman got the credit but Wright was the true father of ground effect. Secondly, with that kind of aero package, the team were able to play lift/drag ratio games with the other teams. Because the 79 didn’t need such large, drag-inducing wings, the 79 was also faster on the straight than non-ground effect cars. So the 79 was a complete package. Ground effect didn’t just make it faster through corners. They could also brake much later because of better adhesion - right into the corners, in fact - and were faster in a straight line because of a better lift/drag ratio.
p.s. this lotus is a whole lot better lookin' than today's lego-block cars with their household appliance engines
those ground effects were subtle next to the Brabham BT46B and the Chapparal 2J, which were deemed illegal after just 1 race.
Those were not ground effects.
Slicks fitted to a legend on a wet track? There's some trust there...👍🏻
Slicks on a wet track? Something Nelson Piquet couldn't cope with ;-)
wow, no idea about that skirt...so damn cool...we need more
Looked at the thumbnail, thought it was that old TG episode with the german saloon cars...
The internet doesn’t deserve this man. Wow.
Esse carro tem na minha modesta opinião o desenho mais belo que um carro de fórmula um já teve, isso p dizer o mínimo, além do que era revolucionário com o efeito asa
After reading a little about Colin Chapman’s development history of Lotus, I almost think he was Howard Stark in the F1 history.
the coolest lotus ever made must be the Lotus 49
25 - the start of the monocoque revolution...
I have said it before and I will say it again: Chriss, you're the luckiest man alive!
When the skirts go down we all get excited.
Top is the best
Who does not love skirts down!!
Get in there Lewis
I swear I saw this car at Eastern beach Geelong many years ago...
Who ever sees this you will have a great day/night.
Thank you
You too my man
Douglas MacArthur Thanks bro
Douglas MacArthur ima sub to you
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Now the CHOC version please.
This was my favourite Scalextric car as a boy, never mind driving the real thing!