{"id":643,"date":"2010-03-13T23:12:28","date_gmt":"2010-03-13T23:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/?p=643"},"modified":"2010-03-13T23:15:16","modified_gmt":"2010-03-13T23:15:16","slug":"first-f1-now-lotus-cosworth-go-back-to-indycar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/2010\/03\/13\/first-f1-now-lotus-cosworth-go-back-to-indycar\/","title":{"rendered":"First F1, now Lotus-Cosworth go back to Indycar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Lotus F1 car during free practice in Bahrain 2010\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/lotusracing\/4427575268\/sizes\/l\/in\/photostream\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px\" title=\"Lotus F1 in Bahain\" src=\"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/LotusF1inBahain.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Lotus F1 in Bahain\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Following <a title=\"Lotus\" href=\"http:\/\/www.grouplotus.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lotus<\/a> and <a title=\"Cosworth\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cosworth.com\/Default.aspx?id=1089570\" target=\"_blank\">Cosworth\u2019s<\/a> return to F1 this year, it sounds like the two companies have big plans for the future.\u00a0 As well as their recent agreement to jointly further develop the Toyota engines Lotus use in the <a title=\"Lotus Elise\" href=\"http:\/\/www.grouplotus.com\/cars\/showroom.html#\/elise\" target=\"_blank\">Elise<\/a> and <a title=\"Lotus Evora\" href=\"http:\/\/www.grouplotus.com\/cars\/showroom.html#\/evora\" target=\"_blank\">Evora<\/a> road cars, today they announced a return to the American <a title=\"Indycar\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indycar.com\" target=\"_blank\">Indycar<\/a> series.<\/p>\n<p>The two have teamed up with the existing <a title=\"KV Racing Technology\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indycar.com\/teams\/show\/55-izod-indycar-series\/1903-kv-racing-technology\/\" target=\"_blank\">KV Racing Technology<\/a> team and will join the grid for the first USA round of this years series.\u00a0 The car will be in the traditional Green and Yellow Lotus colours, and will have Takuma Sato behind the wheel.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t the first time Lotus has raced in Indycar of course, back in the 60\u2019s they were a common sight with Jim Clarke winning the Indy 500 in \u201865.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following Lotus and Cosworth\u2019s return to Formula 1 this year, today they announced a return to the American Indycar series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[371,68,372,50,353,373],"class_list":["post-643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cars","tag-cosworth","tag-f1","tag-indycar","tag-lotus","tag-lotus-cosworth","tag-takuma-sato","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":645,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions\/645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}