Lotus F1, F1 constructor

The tally of seven constructors? and six drivers? titles doesn?t reveal the innovation that Colin Chapman?s team brought to the sport.
Many great drivers raced Lotus machinery between its F1 arrival in 1958 and Team Lotus folding in 1994. That made producing this list tricky, but here?s our pick of the top 10 Lotus F1 drivers.
We?ve considered the amount of success the drivers ...

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Today is the anniversary of the car's first appearance at the 1978 Belgian GP, a race it duly won and whose appearance prompted a development war in F1 as rivals realised they too needed to follow its ground effect concept.
However, the Lotus 79 was not the team's first foray into 'ground effect', but rather a refinement of a solution it had introduced a year earlier with the 78.
A happy ...

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Johnny Dumfries had impeccable credentials when he was signed up to be Ayrton Senna?s team-mate at Lotus for 1986. He was a British Formula 3 Champion, and a dominant one at that. He?d been test driver for Ferrari. And he?d raced in Formula 3000. That wasn?t the CV of a driver who was going to jump into a grand prix-winning car and end up with just three championship points to his name at ...

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