LOTUS F1 YOUNG DRIVER TEST PROGRAM- Nicolas Prost, Davide Valsecchi and Kimi Räikkönen will drive for Lotus F1 Team during next week’s adapted ‘Young Driver Test’ at Silverstone on July 17 -19. The test – originally intended solely for young drivers, but adapted to allow race drivers to test Pirelli’s new tyres – will see Development […]
KIMI ON MONACO… Kimi Räikkönen: “Monaco is a different challenge” After five races and four podiums, Kimi heads to Monaco a tantalising four points off the Drivers’ Championship lead. As our Iceman explains, the challenge of Monaco is quite different from that of the circuits seen so far this season You must be feeling pretty […]
Nick Chester appointed Lotus F1 Team Technical Director… Lotus F1 Team is pleased to announce the promotion of Nick Chester to the position of Technical Director. Nick will replace the departing James Allison, who will leave Enstone after working with the team most recently since 2005 and previously from 1991-1992 and 1994-1999. Nick has worked […]
LOTUS F1 TEAM CONFIRM LAUNCH OF 2013 WORLD SIMULATOR GP CHAMPIONSHIP™ Lotus F1 team launches a new sporting concept, WSC, where teams will compete against each other in a virtual world championship in order to aid development of their real world cars and race strategies. The overall winning driver will be granted a race seat […]
FERRARI STAY ON TOP AND KIMI GETS HIS FIRST TASTE OF THE E21 ON DAY THREE… Kimi Räikkönen had his first taste of the E21 on track during the third day of testing in Jerez, Spain, ending the day with the 4th fastest time after a programme of aerodynamic assessment. A crisp morning gave way […]
LOTUS F1 ON TOP ON DAY TWO IN JEREZ Romain Grosjean ended the second day of testing at Jerez as comfortably the fastest man on track as the team continued its evaluation programme with the E21. Under blue skies with occasional cloud coverage, Romain completed 95 laps; many of which dipped into the 1min 18s. […]