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Lotus F1 Team was a British Formula One racing team. The team competed under the Lotus name from 2012 until 2015, following the renaming of the former Renault team based at Enstone in Oxfordshire. The Lotus F1 Team was majority owned by Genii Capital. [ 1 ][ 2 ] Lotus F1 was named after its branding partner Group Lotus.
Anthony Colin Bruce Chapman CBE (19 May 1928 – 16 December 1982) was an English design engineer, inventor, and builder in the automotive industry, and founder of the sports car company Lotus Cars. [1] Chapman founded Lotus in 1952 and initially ran Lotus in his spare time, assisted by a group of enthusiasts.
The first victory for Team Lotus as a constructor was achieved by Innes Ireland at the 1961 United States Grand Prix. In 1963, Jim Clark clinched the drivers’ championship, securing Team Lotus’s first drivers’ title in F1, alongside their first constructors’ championship. Under the visionary leadership of its founder and chief designer ...
- 7 (1963, 1965, 1968, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1978)
- 1958 Monaco Grand Prix
- 6 (1963, 1965, 1968, 1970, 1972, 1978)
- 491 (489 starts)
Team Lotus was the motorsport sister company of English sports car manufacturer Lotus Cars. The team ran cars in many motorsport categories including Formula One, Formula Two, Formula Ford, Formula Junior, IndyCar, and sports car racing. More than ten years after its last race, Team Lotus remained one of the most successful racing teams of all ...
Team Lotus, affiliated with Lotus Cars, made its mark in Formula One from 1958 to 1994, securing seven constructors’ and six drivers’ titles between 1963 and 1978. The Lotus brand reemerged in F1 in 2010 with Tony Fernandes’s Lotus Racing under a licensing agreement with Group Lotus. After the license was revoked in 2011, Fernandes ...
- 0 (best finish: 4th, 2012 & 2013)
- 25
- 2012 Australian Grand Prix
- 77
Jul 12, 2024 · Getty Images. James Elson. Few people have had such a profound impact on their sport as Colin Chapman, the founder of Team Lotus. Viewed as one of Formula 1’s greatest innovators, the team boss, engineer and car designer’s Lotus outfit won seven constructors’ titles, six drivers’ crowns as well as the Indianapolis 500.
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Chapman created Lotus Engineering in 1952, later forming Team Lotus in 1954. Initially he concentrated on building sports cars from a small workshop in North London. After doing design work for Vanwall, Chapman produced his own single seaters that soon revolutionised Grand Prix racing.
