{"id":13473,"date":"2026-04-20T20:46:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T19:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=13473"},"modified":"2026-04-20T20:46:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T19:46:50","slug":"f1-lotus-79-from-1978-voted-most-beautiful-car-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=13473","title":{"rendered":"F1: Lotus 79 from 1978 voted most beautiful car in history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Thanks to all of you who took part in our vote on the most beautiful F1 car of all time &#8211; and we now have a winner.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Spanning the 1950s to 2025, we drew up a shortlist of 13 which incorporated evocative names from F1 past and present: Maserati, Ferrari, Lotus, Brabham, McLaren, Mercedes, Jordan, Renault and Red Bull.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We had a great response and the final result brought a 1-2 for Lotus with McLaren completing the podium in third.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The black and gold Lotus 79, which dominated the 1978 F1 championship, came out on top, chosen by 17% of users, with the 1967 Lotus 49 in second (13%).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 1988 McLaren MP4\/4, which brought Ayrton Senna his first world title, just edged out the 1992 Williams FW14B, the car from Nigel Mansell&#8217;s championship year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">You can look at and read about all 13 shortlisted cars below, and scroll down for the final results&#8230; <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/formula1\/articles\/ce3dy3z10ddo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to all of you who took part in our vote on the most beautiful F1 car of all time &#8211; and we now have a winner. Spanning the 1950s to 2025, we drew up a shortlist of 13 which incorporated evocative names from F1 past and present: Maserati, Ferrari, Lotus, Brabham, McLaren, Mercedes, Jordan,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-f1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}