Lotus to return to Formular 1 next season

Lotus Return to F1

Lotus are to return to Formular 1 backed by the Malaysian Government and a consortium of entrepreneurs. Lotus will take the 13th slot on next season's grid replacing BMW Sauber.

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Prime Minister announces Lotus F1 Racing 2010 drivers

Lotus F1 Racing has today confirmed that Italy's Jarno Trulli, Finland's Heikki Kovalainen and Malaysia's Fairuz Fauzy have joined the team to spearhead driving duties for its debut Formula 1 season in 2010.
2 January 2010

Lotus Evora wins Perfomance Car of the Year 2009

The Lotus Evora beat strong competition from 29 other cars. The prominent competition included cars from some of the greatest Marques in the world such as Lamborghini, Ferrari, Porsche and Aston Martin. The feature incorporated testing on some of the greatest driving roads in Britain, with objective testing at the Rockingham Motor Speedway, where Darren Turner, a Le Mans winning racer, put the cars through their paces.
2 January 2010

Group Lotus announce the appointment of Mr. Donato Coco

as Director of Design for Group Lotus starting 04 January 2010. In this newly created role, Donato will lead all Lotus Design activities for Lotus Cars and Lotus Engineering.
2 January 2010

Dany T. Bahar has been appointed as the new CEO of Group Lotus replacing Michael J. Kimberley, who retired in July. Prior to this appointment, Dany Bahar was Senior Vice President, Commercial & Brand for Ferrari SpA where he was responsible for worldwide road car sales and after sales business, overall road car and F1 marketing activities, licensing, and merchandising business.
13 September 2009

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New Lotus Chat at Southrun is launched! Southrun has replaced the old chat board with a new fully featured Lotus Chat area. Visit www.southrun.co.uk/southrunchat sign up and join in now.

Cleaing under the front clam, wheels, new air intake pipe and finishing the radiator fan More Elise maintenance in the Lotus Blog.

Braided Hoses and a Brake Caliper Time to make a few extra changes while the clam shell is off.

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