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Lotus
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Full name Team Lotus
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 United Kingdom Stirling Moss
United Kingdom Jim Clark
United Kingdom Graham Hill
Austria Jochen Rindt
Brazil Emerson Fittipaldi
United States Mario Andretti
Sweden Ronnie Peterson
Argentina Carlos Reutemann
United Kingdom Nigel Mansell
Italy Elio de Angelis
Brazil Ayrton Senna
United Kingdom Johnny Dumfries
Japan Satoru Nakajima
Brazil Nelson Piquet
Finland Mika Häkkinen
United Kingdom Johnny Herbert
Italy Alessandro Zanardi
Belgium Jacky Ickx
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
Lotus as a Formula One constructor
Formula One World Championship career
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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