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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 name returned to Formula One in 2010 as 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.
Team Lotus, originally Lotus Racing, was a Malaysian-licensed [1] Formula One racing team and constructor, based in Hingham, Norfolk, UK, which competed during the 2010 and 2011 Formula One seasons. The team scored no championship points in the two years it competed.
As a consequence, for 2012 Lotus Renault GP was rebranded as Lotus F1 Team and its entries were badged as Lotus cars, while Team Lotus was renamed Caterham F1 Team (after the sportscar manufacturer owned by team principal Tony Fernandes) and its cars were badged as Caterhams. Group Lotus was also involved in several other categories of motorsport.
The Lotus E21 [8] is a Formula One racing car designed and built by the Lotus F1 team for use in the 2013 championship. [1] The chassis was designed by James Allison, Nick Chester, Martin Tolliday and Dirk de Beer with Renault supplying the team's engines.
The Lotus E22 is a Formula One racing car designed by Lotus to compete in the 2014 Formula One season. [3] The chassis was designed by Nick Chester , Chris Cooney, Martin Tolliday and Nicolas Hennel with Renault supplying the team's powertrain.
The team retained the Renault name for the 2011 season, [43] but starting in the 2012 season, Genii's primary sponsor, Lotus Cars, [44] [45] signed a deal to rename the team to Lotus F1. The team had no corporate connection to the old Team Lotus. To honor its hometown, the team's chassis designations all contained an "E" for "Enstone". [44] [46]
Rob Walker Racing Team was the most successful example, being responsible for the first victories in Formula One for both Cooper and Lotus. The concept of a "works" or "factory" team (i.e. the official team of the company producing the cars, as opposed to a customer team which buys them off the shelf) therefore applied to chassis in the same ...