{"id":515,"date":"2009-09-15T11:31:13","date_gmt":"2009-09-15T11:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/?p=515"},"modified":"2009-09-15T11:32:45","modified_gmt":"2009-09-15T11:32:45","slug":"lotus-cosworth-back-in-f1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/09\/15\/lotus-cosworth-back-in-f1\/","title":{"rendered":"Lotus-Cosworth back in F1"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"senna_10\"<\/a><\/p>\n

It looks like the FIA<\/a> have awarded the 13th place on the 2010 Formula 1 grid to Lotus, bringing them back to F1 for the first time since 1994.<\/p>\n

For me as a Lotus fan it\u2019s great news.\u00a0 Mike Gascoyne<\/a> will be teams technical director, with Cosworth<\/a> providing the engines.\u00a0 Although it will initially be based in Norfolk at the RTN facility originally built for Toyota, the team will eventually move to a purpose built centre on the Sepang circuit in Malaysia.\u00a0 Most of the funding will be coming from the Malaysian government and investors.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a shame that the team will race under the Malaysian flag rather then the UK, but it\u2019ll be good to have such a historic name back in the sport.\u00a0 Before the teams exit in 1984 they were in F1 for 37 years, entering 491 grand prix, winning 79 of them on the way to 7 constructors titles.<\/p>\n

In the last few races before they left the sport they fielded a car that was technologically brilliant \u2013 Lotus were the first people to realise the potential of Active Suspension \u2013 but the Lotus 109\u2019s raw speed was let down by unreliability, and despite Johnny Herbert qualifying 4th at Monza, his race was ended at the first corner by Eddie Irvine.\u00a0 Eventually they ran out of money and had to pull out of the sport.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Hopefully they\u2019ll be able to field a competitive car and driver line up now they\u2019re back.\u00a0 With Danny Behr joining the company as CEO from Ferrari, a return to F1 and the new Evora road car winning awards everywhere it must be an exciting time at the companies headquarters in Hethel!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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