What Happens When You Mix a Formula 1 Car, a Spaceship and a Periscope?

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Published: December 14, 2010

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In Formula 1, anything that gives you an additional advantage will be used in the desperation to be No. 1. We have had geniuses such as Colin Chapman, Gordon Murray, Rory Bryne and Adrian Newey all have produced cars that, due to their design, are some of the greatest driving machines ever.

Cars such as the Lotus 79, Ferrari F2002, Mclaren MP4/4 and Williams FW14B were some of the most dominant machines ever.

We have also seen some ideas that haven't been very successful.

The Williams FW26, with its Walrus front nose, put Williams from being on the verge of being able to challenge Ferrari to behind, not only Ferrari, but BAR and Renault. The 4-wheel drive, gas turbine powered, Lotus 56 had some success in America but in Europe (when it wasn't raining), it was unable to match any of the other cars.

But the most insane and bizarre looking Formula 1 car I have ever seen has to go to the Eifelland Type 21. Over the 1972 season, the Eifelland car went through many cosmetic changes designed to boost performance. In the end, it was nearly normal.

The car was underneath a March 721 but what designer Luigi Colani did to it made it one of the most mad looking cars ever.

Colani's seemed to have a hatred of straight lines. He had never designed a Formula 1 car before, but all of the other things Colani had designed, including cameras and computer mice as well as road cars barely had a straight line on them.

Luigi decided to use this concept in his Formula 1 car design. He turned his concept that everything should be circular or curved and began designing new body work for the March car. What he designed as you can see was one of the oddest looking cars I have seen. 

The Eifelland team was owned by a German called Gu...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Formula 1

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