Our friend Emilio Palencia Despiau, sent the design you can see in this page to the Black and Gold livery competition. So we jumped on the occasion to ask him a few questions: – Why did you decide to take part in the Lotus Racing contest for the future 2011 Team Lotus livery? – I [...]
The first qualifying session for Lotus in sixteen years did not go as well as expected, with our direct rivals from Virgin Racing snatching from us the position of “best of the new teams” by less than a tenth of a second, (time difference between Timo Glock and Jarno Trulli). Despite the visits of driving [...]
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One of the reasons that makes me feel enthusiastic about the return of the name Lotus to the Formula 1 grid, is that it will make people remember and find out who was its creator, Colin Chapman. No other engineer in the history of Formula 1 has been more decisive in the evolution of its [...]
Categories: Colin Chapman, Defeating Ferrari, History
A great thing about our Team Principal, Tony Fernandes, is his “infectious enthusiasm” as he puts it, he recently stated that there is no brand as Lotus in order to recapture the imagination of fans. We have to remind everybody that Team Lotus was in the seventies the one to be closer to Ferrari in [...]
Categories: History
Purists may cringe to the prospect of the Lotus brand in foreign hands, however Motorsport followers with long memories find the name of Colin Chapman‘s company to be a trigger for a whirlwind of images…
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