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Originally Posted by V8 Fireworks
Because they hadn't been invented yet, but they were all permitted under the rules and the proposal was to use 1974 rules. 
One can't use 1974 rules, and then expect engineers to unlearn everything that has been learned between 1974 and the present day -- indeed the developments between 1974 and 1984 alone like reliable(ish) turbo engines, radial tyres (which spelled the end of F1 cars four-wheel-drifting through bends, as radials operate best at smaller slip angles than cross-ply tyres) and carbon monocoques would already see cars lapping much faster.  |
Some had been invented. Turbo charging was around in 1974. The Chaparral 2j had used fans and skirts. True you can't expect engineers to unlearn everything but that's why there's a rule book, in order to specify what can and cannot be used.