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Formula One portal; 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. The ...
Winner Jim Clark in a Lotus 49. The 1967 United States Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on October 1, 1967, at the Watkins Glen Grand Prix Race Course in Watkins Glen, New York. It was race 10 of 11 in both the 1967 World Championship of Drivers and the 1967 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers.
The first Formula One car in this livery was Graham Hill's Lotus 49B car entered at the 1968 Spanish Grand Prix in Jarama. Team Lotus as a constructor was first to achieve 50 Grand Prix victories. (Ferrari was the second to do so, having won their first Formula One race in 1951, seven years before the first Lotus F1 car.)
The second table includes results from privately owned Lotus cars in World Championship Grands Prix between 1958 and 1979. The tables do not include results for the separate Team Lotus Formula One team of 2011 (which debuted in 2010 as "Lotus Racing"), the Lotus Renault GP team of 2011 or the Lotus F1 Team of 2012.
As of the 2024 season, out of the 777 drivers who have started a Formula One Grand Prix, [16] the 75 titles awarded have been won by a total of 34 different drivers. [8] [9] The first Formula One World Drivers' Champion was Giuseppe Farina in the 1950 championship and the current title holder is Max Verstappen in the 2024 season.
Lotus Racing's debut marked the return of the Lotus name as a constructor to Formula One for the first time since 1994, when the original British company Team Lotus stopped competing in Formula One. Founded as Lotus Racing, the team was operated by 1Malaysia Racing Team Sdn. Bhd., [8] a privately funded project jointly owned by Tune Group and ...
Lotus used the concept of positive aerodynamic downforce, through the addition of wings, at a Tasman Formula race in early 1968, although Ferrari and Brabham were the first to use them in a Formula One race at the 1968 Belgian Grand Prix. Early versions, in 1968 and 1969, were mounted 3 feet (0.91 m) or so above the car, to operate in 'clean ...
Articles about Formula One racing cars carrying the "Lotus" constructor name. These may be cars built by any of the following teams: Team Lotus (1958-94), Lotus Racing, Team Lotus (2011) or Lotus F1 Team.