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The Williams FW15C is a Formula One car designed by Adrian Newey and built by Williams Grand Prix Engineering for use in the 1993 Formula One World Championship.. As the car that won both the Drivers' and Constructors' Championships in the last season before the FIA banned electronic driver aids, the FW15C (along with its racing predecessor FW14B) was, in 2005, considered to be one of the most ...
An active suspension is a type of automotive suspension that uses an onboard control system to control the vertical movement of the vehicle's wheels and axles relative to the chassis or vehicle frame, rather than the conventional passive suspension that relies solely on large springs to maintain static support and dampen the vertical wheel movements caused by the road surface.
The Lotus 91 was the basis for the Lotus 92 - which pioneered active suspension in Formula 1. This suspension was revolutionary, using an on-board system to control the ride height and behaviour of the suspension, thus the Lotus 92 was the first car to be fitted with active suspension. The system was partially controlled by computers but at ...
The Type 92 was out-gunned by turbocharged rivals and never got close to winning a race, but active suspension would be developed by Lotus and other F1 teams until it was banned in 1994.
The McLaren MP4/8 was the Formula One car with which the McLaren team competed in the 1993 Formula One World Championship.The car was designed by Neil Oatley around advanced electronics technology including a semi-automatic transmission (which could be switched over to fully automatic), active suspension, two-way telemetry, and traction control systems, that were developed in conjunction with ...
Williams had debuted their own version of the computer controlled "active suspension" on the FW11 at the 1987 Italian Grand Prix, with Nelson Piquet taking victory in the system's debut (it was called "Williams Reactive Ride" by the team as Lotus had the copyright on the "Active Suspension" name in F1). Williams made revisions to the system in ...
Formula One: Constructor: Team Lotus: Designer(s) Peter Wright (Technical Director) Chris Murphy (Chief Designer) Predecessor: 102D: Successor: 109: Technical specifications; Chassis: Carbon fibre monocoque: Suspension (front) 1992-1993: Active suspension 1994: Double wishbone, pushrod. Suspension (rear) 1992-1993: Active suspension 1994 ...
After much testing Piquet found the car to be superior to the conventionally suspended FW11B. The new suspension was an active suspension system similar to the one Lotus had been using all season on the Lotus 99T, but was renamed as Williams Reactive Ride due to the Lotus team having copyright on the 'Active Suspension' name for the system. The ...