John Player Team Lotus
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| Full name | Team Lotus |
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| Base | Hethel, Norfolk, United Kingdom |
| Founder(s) | Colin Chapman |
| Noted staff |
Maurice Philippe Peter Wright Peter Warr Mike Costin Keith Duckworth Gérard Ducarouge Frank Dernie Chris Murphy Andrew Ferguson |
| Noted drivers |
 Stirling Moss Jim Clark Graham Hill Jochen Rindt Emerson Fittipaldi Mario Andretti Ronnie Peterson Carlos Reutemann Nigel Mansell Elio de Angelis Ayrton Senna Johnny Dumfries Satoru Nakajima Nelson Piquet Mika Häkkinen Johnny Herbert Alessandro Zanardi Jacky Ickx
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| Formula One World Championship career | |
| First entry | 1958 Monaco Grand Prix |
| Races entered | 491 (489 starts) |
| Constructors' Championships |
7 (1963, 1965, 1968, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1978) |
| Drivers' Championships |
6 (1963, 1965, 1968, 1970, 1972, 1978) |
| Race victories | 74 |
| Pole positions | 102 |
| Fastest laps | 65 |
| Final entry | 1994 Australian Grand Prix |
| Formula One World Championship career | |
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| Engines |
Borgward, Coventry Climax, BRM, Maserati, Ford-Cosworth, Renault, Honda, Judd, Lamborghini |
| Entrants | Team Lotus, Rob Walker Racing Team, numerous minor teams and privateers |
| First entry | 1958 Monaco Grand Prix |
| Last entry | 1994 Australian Grand Prix |
| Races entered | 491 entries (489 starts) |
| Race victories | 79 |
| Constructors' Championships | 7 (1963, 1965, 1968, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1978) |
| Drivers' Championships |
6 (1963, 1965, 1968, 1970, 1972, 1978) |
| Pole positions | 107 |
| Fastest laps | 71 |
Team Lotus was the motorsport sister company of English sports car manufacturer Lotus Cars. The team ran cars in many motorsport series, 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 time, winning seven Formula One Constructors' titles, six Drivers' Championships, and the Indianapolis 500 in the United States, between 1962 and 1978. Under the direction of founder and chief designer Colin Chapman, Lotus was responsible for many innovative and experimental developments in critical motorsport, in both technical and commercial arenas.
The Lotus name returned to Formula One in 2010, as the name of Tony Fernandes's Lotus Racing team. In 2011, Team Lotus's iconic black-and-gold livery returned to F1 as the livery of the Lotus Renault GP team, sponsored by Lotus Cars, and in 2012 the team was re-branded completely, as Lotus F1 Team.
Colin Chapman established Lotus Engineering Ltd in 1952 at Hornsey, UK. Lotus achieved rapid success with the 1953 Mk 6 and the 1954 Mk 8 sports cars. Team Lotus was split off from Lotus Engineering in 1954. A new Formula Two regulation was announced for 1957, and in Britain, several organizers ran races for the new regulations during the course of 1956. Most of the cars entered that year were sports cars, and they included a large number of Lotus 11s, the definitive Coventry Climax-powered sports racer, led by the Team Lotus entries for Chapman, driven by Cliff Allison and Reg Bicknell.
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