13 Facts About Lotus F1

Lotus F1 Team was a British Formula One racing team.

Group Lotus F1 later terminated the licence for the 2011 season, but Fernandes acquired the privately owned Team Lotus F1 name and used it.

The dispute was not settled until the third race in China when the stewards unanimously rejected their formal protest and Lotus F1 subsequently confirmed they would not appeal against the decision.

Lotus F1 started the season strongly with Grosjean qualifying third in Australia but first lap incidents in Australia and Malaysia ruined his chances of his first Formula One points.

In Bahrain, Lotus F1 achieved their first podiums of the season with Raikkonen very close to the winner Vettel and Grosjean behind in third.

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Lotus F1 was replaced for the race weekend by Lotus reserve driver Jerome d'Ambrosio.

On 29 October 2012, Lotus F1 team confirmed that Raikkonen would be racing with the team in 2013.

The livery was a little bit different from the previous year's; this year Lotus F1 has a black, gold and red livery, with more visible red as the sidepods, air intake, rear wing and front wing have red on them.

Lotus F1's place was taken by Heikki Kovalainen despite initial speculation suggesting that Michael Schumacher would replace him for the United States Grand Prix, something which was ruled out by Schumacher's manager.

Lotus F1 kept Romain Grosjean for 2014, and Pastor Maldonado would join bringing sponsorship from PDVSA.

On 5 July 2014, Lotus F1 announced that they would be switching to Mercedes engines from the 2015 season, ending the team's 20-year association with Renault.

Lotus F1 then proceeded to spin his car on lap 39 as he attempted to make up for lost time, and on lap 48 had a collision with Jenson Button following a long battle for position, damaging his car and retiring with rear brake failure a few laps later.

Lotus F1 had received their allocation of tyres less than an hour before the opening session at the Hungaroring after Pirelli refused to release the tyres over unpaid bills, amid the team's growing financial difficulties.