page_title: Wobbly-web wheel
section_title: Spoked wheels
hierarchical_section_title: Wobbly-web wheel / Lotus racing cars / Spoked wheels
caption_attribution_description: 1964 Lotus Climax 33 at the 2006 Goodwood Festival of Speed.
context_page_description: The wobbly-web wheel is a form of metal disc wheel where the disc is 'wobbled' into spokes. This provides a stiffer, lightweight wheel.
  Wobbly-web wheels are best known through their iconic use on Lotus racing cars of the late 1950s and 1960s.
context_section_description: A drawback to the use of a disc wheel, particularly for front wheels, is the lack of airflow through the wheels, which is important for cooling the brake discs. The rear wheels of single-seat racing cars are driven by driveshafts from the transaxle and the brakes are usually mounted inboard in any case, away from the wheels. Later Lotus designs, from the 26 onwards, used spoked wheels, although this was more about the shrinking diameter of racing tyres, especially fronts, rather than brake cooling. With an open-wheel racing car, any shrouding from the wheels was never a serious limitation.
caption: Lotus Climax 33, spoked front wheels and outboard brake discs, with wobbly web rear wheels and inboard discs.
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