This is an exclusive project of historic information from the world of Formula One. On The Grid chronicles the history of drivers with all Formula One teams dating back to 1950 to the present.

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KAUHSEN

TEAM: KAUHSEN
NATIONALITY: D
INCEPTION: 1979-1979
COMMENT: Kauhsen was a Formula One constructor from Germany. They participated in 2 grands prix, entering a total of 2 cars. Willi Kauhsen had run Porsches and quasi-works Alfa Romeo sports cars with some success and bought the championship-winning Elf Formula Two cars at the end of the 1976 season with a view to establishing a successful single seater team. The Elfs enjoyed no success and it was somewhat surprising to see Kauhsen stepping up to Formula One in 1979. He was rumoured to be behind a project to run a pair of Kojima cars, but this did not work out; Kauhsen appeared with a series of improbable ground-effect cars that were crude copies of the Lotus 78 and 79 and whose performance was dismal. It was yet more surprising to see the cars sold to Arturo Merzario where they replaced his earlier crude March-based cars as the basis of his later eponymous team Merzario efforts.

YEAR NAME NAT. POINTS/RESULTS
Kauhsen-Cosworth (NIL)
1979 Gianfranco Brancatelli I NIL (Touring Cars)

KLENK METEOR

TEAM: KLENK METEOR
NATIONALITY: D
INCEPTION: 1954-1954
COMMENT: The Klenk-Meteor was a racing car which competed in the 1954 German Grand Prix. The car was based on the established German marque of Veritas which was active between 1948-53. Veritas is chiefly remembered as a manufacturer of sports cars and successful Formula Two racing cars. The company closed when its founder, Ernst Loof, became ill. He subsequently died in 1956. The Klenk-Meteor entered for the 1954 German Grand Prix was essentially a Veritas Formula Two car. The car was owned and prepared by the noted German racing driver Hans Klenk who intended to race it himself in the Grand Prix. However, Klenk’s career as a racing driver came to an end when he suffered injuries in an accident while working as a test driver for Mercedes-Benz. The car was driven in the Grand Prix by another German, Theo Helfrich. He retired on lap 9 with engine failure.

YEAR NAME NAT. POINTS/RESULTS
Klenk Meteor-BMW (NIL)
1954 Theo Helfrich D NIL (Retired from F.1. b: 1913 – d: 1978)

KOJIMA

TEAM: KOJIMA
NATIONALITY: JAP
INCEPTION: 1976-1977
COMMENT: Kojima Engineering was a Japanese Formula One constructor who entered cars in the Japanese Grand Prix in 1976 and 1977. The team was founded in 1976 by Matsuhisa Kojima. Kojima had made a fortune importing bananas, and was a motor-racing enthusiast, having ridden in Motocross himself in the 1960s. He began entering Formula Two cars in Japan, and struck a deal with Dunlop to supply tyres for the 1976 Japanese Grand Prix. To go with these, the company constructed the KE007 chassis, and brought on several staff from the Maki team. They helped arrange an entry for the Grand Prix at Fuji, and a Cosworth DFV engine. Though unsuccessful in Formula One, the team continued as a F2 entrant until the late 1980s.

YEAR NAME NAT. POINTS/RESULTS
Kojima-Ford (NIL)
1976 Masahiro Hasemi JAP NIL (Formula 2/Skylines/JGTC/Japanese Sports Prototype Championship/Daytona 24 Hour. Retired from racing in 2001.)
Kojima-Ford (NIL)
1977 Kazuyoshi Hoshino JAP NIL (Japanese F2/F3000/Japanese Prototype Championship/Skyline GT-R. He retired from racing in 2002 and now continues to run his own Super GT team and his own Nissan specialized aftermarket parts company, Impul.)
1977 Noritake Takahara JAP NIL (Retired from F.1.)

LAGO-TALBOT

TEAM: LAGO-TALBOT
NATIONALITY: F
INCEPTION: 1950-1951

YEAR NAME NAT. POINTS/RESULTS
Lago-Talbot
1950 Louis Rosier F 4th (13 pts.)
1950 Yves Giraud-Cabantous 14th (3 pts.)
1950 Philippe Etancelin F 18th (2 pts.)
1950 Eugene Chaboud F 20th (1 pt.)
1950 Charles Pozzi F NIL (Retired from F.1. and drove sports cars. After his retirement from racing, he founded Charles Pozzi S.A., the official importer of Ferrari and Maserati motor vehicles in France. In 2003, the company was acquired by the Ferrari company. Pozzi died in 2001 in Levallois-Perret, a suburb in western Paris.
1950 Eugen Martin F NIL (Retired from F.1. Martin is better known for his participation in several of the prewar grands prix. He won the first Grand Prix Aix les Bains Circuit du Lac in 1949 with a Jicey-BMW. He was one of the last surviving drivers from that era. He died in Rochelle in 2006.
1950 Guy Mairesse F NIL
1950 Harry Schell USA NIL (Maserati)
1950 Henri Louveau F NIL
1950 Johnny Claes B NIL
1950 Pierre Levegh F NIL
1950 Raymond Sommer F NIL (Sommer entered the Haute-Garonne Grand Prix in Cadours, France where the steering failed on his 1100 cc Cooper and the car overturned at a corner. Sommer was instantly killed, his traditional canvas helmet proving to be no use at all.)
Lago-Talbot
1951 Louis Rosier F 13th (3 pts.) (Ferrari)
1951 Andre Pilette B NIL (Connaught)
1951 Duncan Hamilton GB NIL (HWM)
1951 Eugene Chaboud F NIL (He also participated in numerous non-Championship Formula One races. Chaboud won the 1938 24 Hours of Le Mans, and retired from the sport after crashing at Le Mans during the 1952 event.)
1951 George Grignard F NIL (Retired from F.1.)
1951 Guy Mairesse F NIL (Mairesse was killed in practice for the Coupe de Paris at Montlhéry in 1954 when he swerved to avoid another car and crashed into a concrete wall.
1951 Henri Louveau F NIL (Retired from F.1. His claim to fame was coming 2nd in the 1949 24 Hours of Le Mans.)
1951 Jacques Swaters B NIL (Ferrari)
1951 Johnny Claes B NIL (Simca-Gordini)
1951 Jose Froilan Gonzalez ARG NIL (Switched to Ferrari after the third race and ended that year 3rd in the Championship.)
1951 Louis Chiron MC NIL (OSCA)
1951 Philippe Etancelin F NIL (Maserati)
1951 Pierre Levegh F NIL (Sports cars. Levegh is mainly remembered for a disaster that killed him and 82 spectators during the 1955 24 Hours of Le Mans automobile race. Levegh is buried in the Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.)
1951 Yves Giraud-Cabantous F 18th (2 pts.) (HWM-Alta)

LANCIA

TEAM: LANCIA
NATIONALITY: I
INCEPTION: 19541956
COMMENT: After Vincenzo Lancia’s son Gianni became director of the firm, it started to take part more frequently in motorsport, eventually deciding to build a Grand Prix car. Vittorio Jano was the new designer for Lancia and his Lancia D50 was entered into the 1954 Spanish Grand Prix, where Alberto Ascari took the pole position and drove the fastest lap. In the 1955 Monaco Grand Prix Ascari crashed into the harbour after missing a chicane. One week later Ascari was killed in an accident driving a Ferrari sports car at Monza. With Ascari’s death and Lancia’s financial problems the company withdrew from Grand Prix racing. Altogether Lancia took two victories and ten podiums in Formula One. Remnants of the Lancia team were transferred to Scuderia Ferrari, where Juan Manuel Fangio won the 1956 championship with a Lancia-Ferrari car (See Ferrari).

YEAR NAME NAT. POINTS/RESULTS
Lancia-Ferrari
1954 Luigi Villoresi I 20th (2 pts.)
1954 Alberto Ascari I NIL
Lancia-Ferrari
1955 Alberto Ascari I NIL (His 1955 season started similarly, retiring twice more, the latter of which was a spectacular incident in Monaco where he crashed into the harbour after missing a chicane. Four days later, on May 26, he went to Monza to watch his friend Eugenio Castellotti test a Ferrari 750 Monza sports car, which they were to co-race in the Supercortemaggiore 1000 km race (having been given special dispensation by Lancia). Just before going home to have lunch with his wife Mietta, he decided to try a few laps with the Ferrari. In shirt sleeves, ordinary trousers and Castellotti’s helmet he set off. As he emerged from a fast curve on the third lap the car unaccountably skidded, turned on its nose and somersaulted twice. Thrown out on the track, Ascari suffered multiple injuries and died a few minutes later. Legend has it that Ascari was a very superstitious man and would always insist on using his distinct pale blue crash helmet. On the day he died, his helmet wasn’t available, so he borrowed Castellotti’s white one. The helmet was at the repair shop, having new chin strap fitted after the incident in Monte Carlo which saw Ascari’s Lancia take a dip in the Monaco harbour. The eerie similarities between the deaths of Alberto and his father still haunt his fans to this day. Alberto Ascari died on May 26, 1955, at the age of 36. Antonio Ascari was also 36 when he died, on July 26, 1925 (Alberto was only 4 days older). Both father and son had won 13 championship Grand Prix and drove car number 26. Both were killed four days after surviving serious accidents and on the 26th day of the month. Both had crashed fatally at the exit of fast but easy left-hand corners and both left behind a wife and two children. Fans from all across the globe mourned as Alberto Ascari was laid to rest next to the grave of his father in the Cimitero Monumentale cemetery in Milan, to be forever remembered as one of the greatest racers of all time. In 32 races, he won 13, finished on the podium 17 times and was World Champion twice. In 1992, his name was inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame.
Lancia
1955 Eugenio Castellotti I 3rd (12 pts.) (Ferrari)
1955 Giuseppe Farina ARG NIL (In 1954 Farina won a round of the World Sports Car Championship, only to be badly burnt following a startline crash at the Sports Car race at Monza. Farina attempted a comeback in 1955, dosing himself with painkillers and scoring a couple of points finishes. However, conceding defeat, he retired from Formula 1 at the end of the season. In 1956 he made a half-hearted attempt at the Indianapolis 500, crashing in the process, only to break his collar bone after a crash at a minor race at Monza. Again he recovered and tried the Indy 500, but this time his team-mate had a fatal crash while practicing in Farina’s race car, and Farina decided to give up for good. A notable character in early World Championship Grand Prix racing, Farina was noted for his driving style and intelligence, but also his petulant streak and his disregard for his fellow competitors on the race track. He was involved in the fatal accidents of Marcel Lehoux in the 1936 Grand Prix de Deauville and László Hartmann at Tripoli in 1938. It was ironic that after all the injuries he sustained in the latter part of his career, it was in a car crash that he finally lost his life at Chambery in France, whilst driving to spectate at the 1966 French Grand Prix.)
1955 Louis Chiron MC NIL (Maserati)
1955 Luigi Villoresi I 20th (2 pts.) (Maserati)
Lancia
1956 Luigi Musso I 11th (4 pts.) (Ferrari)
(Look under Ferrari Lancia-Ferrari for the drivers in 1957)

LARROUSSE

TEAM: LARROUSSE
NATIONALITY: F
INCEPTION: 1987-1994
COMMENT: Larrousse Formula One was a motorsports racing team founded in 1987 by Didier Calmels and former racer Gérard Larrousse, originally under the name Larrousse & Calmels. It was based in Antony, in the southern suburbs of Paris. It was renamed Larrousse after the departure of Calmels for legal reasons. The team competed in Formula One from 1987 to 1994 before succumbing to financial problems, scoring a best finish of third at the 1990 Japanese Grand Prix during this time.

YEAR NAME NAT. POINTS/RESULTS
Larrousse-Ford (17th 3 pts.)
1987 Philippe Alliot F 17th (3 pts.)
1987 Yannick Dalmas F NIL
Larrousse-Ford (NIL)
1988 Yannick Dalmas F NIL
1988 Aguri Suzuki JAP NIL (Zakspeed-Yamaha)
1988 Pierre-Henri Raphanel F NIL (Coloni-Ford)
1988 Philippe Alliot F NIL
Larrousse-Lamborghini (15th 1 pt.)
1989 Philippe Alliot F 26th (1 pt.) (Gitanes Ligier-Ford)
1989 Yannick Dalmas F NIL (AGS mid-season)
1989 Eric Bernard F NIL
1989 Michele Alboreto I NIL (Footwork Arrows-Lamborghini)
Larrousse-Ford (6th (11 pts.)
1990 Aguri Suzuki JAP 12th (6 pts.)
1990 Eric Bernard F 13th (5 pts.)
Larrousse-Ford (11th 2 pts.)
1991 Eric Bernard F 18th (1 pt.) (Gitanes-Blondes Ligier-Renault)
1991 Aguri Suzuki JAP 18th (1 pt.) (Footwork Mugen-Honda)
Central Park Venturi Larrousse-Lamborghini (11th 2 pts.)
1992 Bertrand Gachot B 19th (1 pt.) (Pacific)
1992 Ukyo Katayama JAP NIL (Tyrrell-Yamaha)
Central Park Venturi Larrousse-Lamborghini (10th 3 pts.)
1993 Philippe Alliot F 17th (2 pts.) (Marlboro McLaren-Peugeot/sports car racing)
1993 Toshio Suzuki JAP NIL (Japanese F3/Japanese Touring Car Championship/All-Japan Grand Touring Car Championship/24 Hours Le Mans/After the retirement as a racing driver, he became team director. In 2006, he became the director of the R&D SPORT in Super GT to continue the team that Direxiv abandoned.
1993 Erik Comas F 20th (1 pt.)
Tourtel Larrousse-Ford (NIL)
1994 Philippe Alliot F NIL (After announcing his retirement from Formula One in 1995, he decided to try a career in politics, also did some TV commentary and competed in ice racing and the Paris-Dakar Rally, but ended running his own GT racing team.)
1994 Erik Comas F 23rd (2 pts.) All-Japan Grand Touring Car Championship/GT500/24 Hours Le Mans/rallying/Comas Racing Management/Sportsland SUGO. Comas entered the red flagged 1994 Imola grand prix following the fatal crash of Ayrton Senna. He was frantically waved through the Tamburello corner and narrowly avoided a medical aid helicopter which was due to land on the scene. Ironically it was Senna who saved Comas’ life at Spa in 1992 after Comas had a terrible crash at the Blanchimont corner during qualifying. Senna jumped from his car, ran over to Comas, shut down his engine and held Comas’ head in a stable position until the doctors could arrive.

LDS

TEAM: LDS
NATIONALITY: RSA
INCEPTION: 1962-1968
COMMENT: Serrurier built a series of racing cars under the name of LDS, after his initials. The first was based on a Cooper, and later cars were based on Brabhams. The cars were raced mainly by Serrurier himself, and Sam Tingle.

YEAR NAME NAT. POINTS/RESULTS
LDS-Alfa-Romeo (NIL)
1962 Doug Serrurier RSA NIL
LDS-Alfa-Romeo (NIL)
1963 Doug Serrurier RSA NIL
1963 Sam Tingle RHO NIL (He was one of only two drivers from the former republic of Rhodesia to successfully enter a Formula One race, the other being John Love. A third Rhodesian racer, Clive Puzey, failed to qualify in his Formula One attempt.)
LDS-Climax (NIL)
1965 Doug Serrurier RSA NIL
1965 J. Pretorius RSA NIL (Brabham-Climax)
LDS-Alfa-Romeo (NIL)
1967 Sam Tingle RHO NIL
1967 Sam Tingle RHO NIL
LDS-Repco (NIL)
1968 Sam Tingle RHO NIL (Brabham-Repco)

LEC

TEAM: LEC
NATIONALITY: GB
INCEPTION: 1973/1977

YEAR NAME NAT. POINTS/RESULTS
LEC Refrigeration-March-Cosworth (NIL)
1973 David Purley GB NIL (Token Racing) David Purley attempted a courageous but futile attempt to save Roger Williamson’s life in a firey accident. For his efforts, Purley received the George Medal.
LEC Refrigeration-Cosworth (NIL)
1977 David Purley GB NIL (Following his decision to quit motorsport, David Purley moved into competition aerobatics. He died in 1985 when his Pitts Special biplane crashed into the sea off Bognor Regis.

LEYTON-HOUSE

TEAM: LEYTON-HOUSE
NATIONALITY: JAP
INCEPTION: 1990-1991
COMMENT: The rebranding of the March team which returned to F1 in 1987. Leyton-House, a Japanese real estate company, had been the
team’s marquee sponsor since that year and went on to buy the team in 1989.

YEAR NAME NAT. POINTS/RESULTS
Leyton-House-Judd (7 pts. 7th)
1990 Mauricio Gugelmin BR (1 pt. 18th)
1990 Ivan Capelli I (6 pts. 10th)
Leyton-House-Ilmor (1 pt. 12th)
1991 Mauricio Gugelmin BR (Nil) (Jordan)
1991 Ivan Capelli I (1 pt. 10th) (Ferrari)
1991 Karl Wendlinger A (Nil) (March F1)

The team was sold back to March F1 only to fold in 1993.

LIFE RACING

TEAM: LIFE RACING
NATIONALITY: I
INCEPTION: 1990
COMMENT: Life was a Formula One constructor from Modena, Italy. The company was named for its founder, Ernesto Vita (“Vita” is Italian for “Life”). Life first emerged on the Formula One scene in 1990, trying to market their unconventional W12 3.5 L engine. The team had a disastrous single season, and failed to make the grid in all 14 attempted starts during the 1990 season, often clocking in laps many seconds (even minutes) slower than its next competitor.

YEAR NAME NAT. POINTS/RESULTS
Life-Judd (NIL)
1990 Gary Brabham GB NIL (Sportscars/CART. Retired from racing to pursue teaching advanced driver training.)
1990 Bruno Giacomelli I NIL (Retired from F.1.)

LIGIER/PROST

TEAM: LIGIER/PROST
NATIONALITY: F
INCEPTION: 1976-1996/1997-2001
COMMENT: Ligier is a French automobile maker created by former racing driver and rugby player Guy Ligier.

YEAR NAME NAT. POINTS/RESULTS
Gitanes Ligier-Matra (5th 20 pts.)
1976 Jacques Laffite F 7th (20 pts.)
Gitanes Ligier-Matra (8th 18pts.)
1977 Jacques Laffite F 10th (18 pts.)
Gitanes Ligier-Matra (6th 19 pts.)
1978 Jacques Laffite F 8th (19 pts.)
Gitanes Ligier-Ford (3rd 61 pts.)
1979 Jacques Laffite F 4th (36 pts.)
1979 Patrick Depailler F 6th (20 pts.) (Alfa-Romeo)
1979 Jacky Ickx B 16th (3 pts.) (Retired from F.1. After he retired from his professional racing career, he continued to compete in the Paris-Dakar Rally, winning it in 1983 and even competing with daughter Vanina in recent years. Nowadays, he appears in historic events as a driver, such as the Goodwood Festival of Speed and the Monterey Historics, usually on behalf of Porsche and Ferrari. He still acts as the Clerk of the Course for the Monaco Grand Prix and is still a resident of Brussels. He won a record six 24 Hour Le Mans races.
Gitanes Ligier-Matra (2nd 66 pts.)
1980 Jacques Laffite F 4th (34 pts.)
1980 Didier Pironi F 5th (32 pts.) (Ferrari)
Gitanes Ligier-Matra (4th 44 pts.)
1981 Jacques Laffite F 4th (44 pts.)
1981 Jean-Pierre Jabouille F NIL (Jabouille crushed his legs legs with Renault after his contract with Ligier. He was forced to quit F.1. Runs team in ISRS.)
1981 Patrick Tambay F 19th (1 pt.) (Ferrari)
1981 Jean-Pierre Jarier F NIL (Osella-Ford before the end of the season)
Talbot Ligier-Matra (8th 20 pts.)
1982 Eddie Cheever USA 12th (Renault)
1982 Jacques Laffite F T-17th (5 pts.) (Williams-Ford/Honda)
Gitanes Ligier-Ford (NIL)
1983 Raul Boesel BR NIL (Indy Cars)
1983 Jean-Pierre Jarier F NIL (Retired from F.1. Drove 134 races with no wins.)
Gitanes Ligier-Renault (10th 3 pts.)
1984 Andrea de Cesaris I 18th (3 pts.)
1984 Francois Hesnault F NIL (Brabham-BMW)
Gitanes Ligier-Renault (6th 23 pts.)
1985 Jacques Laffite F 9th (16 pts.)
1985 Philippe Streif F T-15th (Tyrrell-Renault before the end of the season)
1985 Andrea de Cesaris I T-17th (3 pts.) (Minardi)
Gitanes Ligier-Renault (5th 29 pts.)
1986 Jacques Laffite F 8th (14th) (Laffite scored 3rd in the first race and 2nd in Detroit, however, he sustained crushed his legs during a horrific accident at Brands Hatch, ending his Formula One career. ended his career tied with Graham Hill for the most Grand Prix starts. He was the most successful driver in Ligier’s history, having taken six of their nine wins. In 1987, he signed with the French Touring Car Championship. He is now a television commentator. In October 2008, at the age of 64, he tested a Renault R27 F1 car at the Paul Ricard circuit.)
1986 René Arnoux F 10th (14 pts.)
1986 Philippe Alliot F T-18th (1 pt.) (Larrousse-Cosworth)
Loto Ligier-Megatron (11th 1 pt.)
1987 René Arnoux F 19th (1 pt.)
1987 Piercarlo Ghinzani I NIL (Zakspeed)
Loto Ligier-Judd (NIL)
1988 René Arnoux F NIL
1988 Stefan Johansson S NIL (Moneytron Onyx-Cosworth)
Loto Ligier-Ford (13th 3 pts.)
1989 René Arnoux F 23rd (2 pts.) Towards the end of his career Arnoux attracted some controversy; he was frequently accused of blocking faster cars in qualifying and when being lapped. He finished his career with 181 World Championship points. René Arnoux has since started an indoor karting business called Kart’in, consisting of four tracks in France, two in the Parisian area, one in the suburbs of Lyons and one near Marseille. He also owns and manages two factories, frequently appears and drives in historical events on behalf of Renault and resides in Paris.
1989 Olivier Grouillard F 26th (1 pt.) (Osella-Cosworth)
Gitanes Ligier-Ford (NIL)
1990 Nicola Larini I NIL (Modena-Lamborghini)
1990 Philippe Alliot F NIL (Larrousse-Lamborghini)
Gitanes Ligier-Lamborghini (NIL)
1991 Thierry Boutsen B NIL
1991 Erik Comas F NIL
Gitanes Ligier-Renault (7th 6 pts.)
1992 Thierry Boutsen B 14th (2 pts.) (Sasol Jordan-Hart)
1992 Erik Comas F 11th (4 pts.) (Larrousse-Ford)
Gitanes-Blondes Ligier-Renault (5th 23 pts.)
1993 Martin Brundle GB 7th (13 pts.) (Marlboro McLaren-Peugeot)
1993 Mark Blundell GB 10th (10 pts.) (Tyrrell-Yamaha)
Gitanes Ligier-Renault (6th 13 pts.)
1994 Eric Bernard F 18th (4 pts.) (Switched to Lotus-Mugen Honda near the end of the season.)
1994 Johnny herbert GB NIL (Drove for three teams in one season.) (Mild Seven Benetton)
1994 Franck Lagorce F NIL (He was Ligier’s test driver in 1994 and 1995 and drove in the last two races of the 1994 Formula One season when Johnny Herbert moved to Benetton to replace JJ Lehto who had been loaned to Sauber. He then become test driver for Forti Corse in 1996.)
1994 Olivier Panis F 11th (9 pts.)
Gitanes Ligier-Mugen Honda (5th 24 pts.)
1995 Olivier Panis F 8th (16 pts.)
1995 Martin Brundle GB 13th (7 pts.) (B&H Total Jordan-Peugeot)
1995 Aguri Suzuki JAP 17th (1 pt.) He later moved on to JGTC and remained involved in Japanese driver development. In 2000, with long term sponsor Autobacs, he would run the ARTA (Autobacs Racing Team Aguri) who despite winning the GT300 title in 2002, would expand to DTM a season later and launched Super Aguri Fernandez Racing with Adrian Fernandez, running cars in the IRL. From 2006 Suzuki ran the Super Aguri F1 Formula One team with the backing of Honda. He managed to put together his new team in just four and half months from his initial announcement on 1 November 2005. The team overcame the hurdle of its initial entry being rejected by the FIA after not securing financial guarantees before the entry deadline, and their acceptance was not formally confirmed until January 26, 2006. The team made its debut at the Bahrain Grand Prix on 12 March 2006. On 6 May 2008, after competing in the opening four races of the season, Suzuki confirmed that his team
would cease all activities in Formula One due to financial constraints.
Gitanes Ligier-Mugen Honda (6th 15 pts.)
1996 Olivier Panis F 9th (13 pts.) (Prost)
1996 Pedro Diniz BR 15th (2 pts.) (Arrows-Megatron)

PROST GRAND PRIX

Prost Grand Prix was a Formula One racing team managed by former world champion Alain Prost. The team participated in five seasons from 1997 to 2001.

Gauloises Prost-Mugen-Honda (6th 21 pts.)
1997 Olivier Panis F 9th (16 pts.) (Broke both of his legs in a crash at the Canadian GP.
1997 Jarno Trulli I 15th (3 pts.)
1997 Shinji Nakano JAP 18th (2 pts.) (Minardi)
Gauloises Prost-Peugeot (9th 1 pt.)
1998 Olivier Panis F NIL
1998 Jarno Trulli I 16th (1 pt.)
Gauloises Prost-Peugeot (7th 9 pts.)
1999 Olivier Panis F 15th (2 pts.) (BAR)
1999 Jarno Trulli I 11th (7 pts.) (Benson & Hedges Jordan-Mugen Honda)
Gauloises Prost-Peugeot (NIL)
2000 Jean Alesi F NIL
2000 Nick Heidfeld D NIL (Sauber Petronas)
Prost-Acer (9th 4 pts.)
2001 Jean Alesi F 15th (5 pts.) (B&H Jordan Honda)
2001 Heinz Harald Frentzen D NIL (Orange Arrows-Cosworth)
2001 Gaston Mazzacane ARG NIL (However, the 2001 San Marino Grand Prix would be his final F1 race. Alain Prost fired him by using a performance clause in his contract. The vacancy was filled by Luciano Burti, who had recently been sacked from Jaguar Racing. Mazzacane signed a contract with the reformed DART team a/k/a Phoenix, which had plans to race in the 2002 season. However, it was not to be as the team was barred from racing. He then went to the US and competed in the last half of the 2004 Champ Car season.)
2001 Luciano Burti BR NIL (Almost had an almost fatal crash at the Belgian Grand Prix later on in the year saw him having to sit out the rest of the season with facial bruising and concussion. His seat was taken by Czech rookie Tomáš Enge. He has since returned to Brazil, where he competes in Stock Car Brasil and commentates on Formula One races.)
2001 Tomas Enge CZECH NIL (The Prost team folded before the start of the 2002 season, leaving Enge without a drive. On 31 March 2007, Enge was injured whilst driving his F430 at the ALMS St. Petersburg race. The car crashed whilst leading the GT2 class, suffering heavy damage to the driver’s side and a brief fire. Enge was removed under medical supervision and transported to the local medical centre. He was
later revealed to have suffered a shattered elbow, cracked ribs, a partially collapsed lung and a potentially broken ankle, but not to be in any serious danger. On 21 July 2007, Enge was released from his contract with Peterson Motorsports/White Lightning Racing due to a penalty incurred after crashing into Mika Salo during the Acura Sports Car Challenge ALMS race at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course.)

LOLA RACING

TEAM: LOLA RACING
NATIONALITY: GB
INCEPTION: 1997-1997
COMMENT: Lola Racing Cars is a racing car engineering company founded in 1961 by Eric Broadley and based in Huntingdon, England. Lola started by building small front-engined sports cars, and branched out into Formula Junior cars before diversifying into one of the oldest and largest manufacturers of racing cars in the world. Lola is one of the best-known names in automobile racing. Lola was acquired by Martin Birrane in 1998 after the unsuccessful Lola MasterCard attempt at Formula 1.

YEAR NAME NAT. POINTS/RESULTS
Mastercard Lola-Ford (NIL)
1997 Vincenzo Sospiri I NIL (Indy Racing League/Sports Racing World Cup/24 Hours of Le Mans. Sospiri retired from racing in 2001 and is now the team manager for the Euronova team in Italian Formula 3000.)
1997 Ricardo Rosset BR NIL (Tyrrell-Ford)

LOTUS RACING

TEAM: LOTUS RACING
NATIONALITY: GB
INCEPTION: 1958-1994/2010-2011
COMMENT: Team Lotus was the motorsport sister company of English sports car manufacturer Lotus Cars. The team ran cars in many motorsport series including Formula One, Formula Two, Formula Ford, Formula Junior, IndyCar and sports car racing. More than ten years after its last race Team Lotus remains one of the most successful racing teams of all time, winning seven Formula One Constructors’ titles, six Drivers’ Championships, and the Indianapolis 500 in the United States, between 1962 and 1978. Under the direction of founder and Chief Designer Colin Chapman Lotus was responsible for many innovative and experimental developments in motorsport, in both technical and commercial arenas.

YEAR NAME NAT. POINTS/RESULTS
Lotus-Climax (6th)
1958 Cliff Allison GB 18th (3 pts.) (Drove for Maserati for one race, then to Ferrari in ‘59.)
1958 Graham Hill GB NIL
1958 Alan Stacey GB NIL
Lotus-Climax (4th)
1959 Innes Ireland GB 14th (5 pts.)
1959 Graham Hill GB NIL (Owen Racing-BRM)
1959 Alan Stacey GB NIL
1959 Bruce Halford GB NIL (Cooper-Climax)
1959 Gerard “Pete” Lovely USA NIL (Fred Armbruster Cooper-Ferrari)
1959 David Piper GB NIL
Lotus-Climax (2nd)
1960 Innes Ireland GB 4th (18 pts.)
1960 Jim Clark GB 10th (8 pts.)
1960 John Surtees GB T-12th (Cooper-Climax)
1960 Ron Flockhart GB T-24th (Cooper-Climax)
1960 Alan Stacey GB NIL (Stacey was killed during the 1960 Belgian Grand Prix, at Spa-Francorchamps, when he crashed at 120 m.p.h. after being hit in the face by a bird on lap 25, while lying in sixth place with his Lotus. Stacey was driving the same type of Lotus as Stirling Moss, who was nearly killed on the previous day.)
1960 David Piper GB NIL (Sports Cars. Piper was injured during the filming of the film “Le Mans” and lost part of one leg. He continues to race his green Porsche 917 and other cars in historic events.)
1960 Alberto Larreta ARG NIL
1960 Mike Taylor GB NIL
1960 Jim Hall USA NIL
Lotus-Climax (2nd)
1961 Stirling Moss GB 3rd (21 pts.) In 1962, Moss was badly injured in a crash at Goodwood while driving a Lotus in the Glover Trophy. The accident put him in a coma and partially paralyzed the left side of his body. He recovered but decided to retire from racing after a private test session the next year.
1961 Innes Ireland GB 6th (12 pts.)
1961 Jim Clark GB 7th (11 pts.)
1961 Lucien Bianchi B NIL
1961 Michael May CH NIL (After a crash during practice for the 1961 German Grand Prix, May concentrated on engineering, helping to develop a fuel injection system for Porsche and Ferrari.)
1961 Henry Taylor GB NIL (Ford’s competiton manager)
1961 Cliff Allison GB NIL (He broke both his knees and fractured his pelvis when his car careened off the course and overturned in a field. Concentrated on his garage.)
1961 Ian Burgess GB NIL (Cooper-Climax)
1961 Trevor Taylor GB NIL
1961 Willy Mairesse B NIL (Just drove two races. Switched to Ferrari.)
1961 Tony Marsh GB NIL (His Formula One career was short and unsuccessful, but he later enjoyed great success in hillclimbing, having won the British Hillclimb Championship on a record six occasions, divided into two sets of three successive titles.)
1961 Wolfgang Seidel D NIL
1961 Gerry Ashmore GB NIL
1961 Tony Maggs RSA NIL (Cooper-Climax)
1961 Tim Parnell GB NIL
1961 Jim Hall USA NIL
1961 Lloyd Ruby USA NIL (USAC Championship Car Series/Endurance Racing. Ruby also played a key role in Ford Motor Company’s GT40 program in the mid-1960s.)
1961 Peter Ryan CAN NIL (Ryan’s successes came in sports cars racing in Canada, the US and Nassau. He was recognized as a star in the making and after winning numerous races in Canada was given a factory Lotus drive in the Formula Two race at Rheims where he died in a practice crash on July 2, 1962. He was inducted into the Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame in 1993.)
Lotus-Climax (2nd)
1962 Jim Clark GB 2nd (30 pts.)
1962 Dan Gurney USA 5th (15 pts.) (Brabham-Climax)
1962 Jack Brabham AUS 9th (9 pts.) (Switched to Brabham-Climax mid-season)
1962 Trevor Taylor GB 10th (6 pts.)
1962 Innes Ireland GB 16th (2 pts.) (BRM)
1962 Masten Gregory USA T-18th (Lola-Climax)
1962 Neville Lederle RSA T-18th
1962 Lucien Bianchi B NIL (Switched to Maserati mid-season)
1962 Gerry Ashmore GB NIL (Retired from F.1.)
1962 Jim Hall GB NIL
1962 Wolfgang Seidel D NIL (Retired from F.1.)
Lotus-Climax
1962 Jo Siffert CH NIL
1962 Maurice Trintignant F NIL (Lola-Climax)
1962 Nino Vacarella I NIL (Porsche)
1962 John Campbell-Jones GB NIL (Emeryson-Climax)
1962 Tony Shelly NZ NIL (Retired from F.1. Runs a BMW dealership.)
1962 Jay Chamberlain GB NIL (Retired from F.1., but continued to race in non-championship Formula One races.)
1962 Keith Greene GB NIL (Gilby-BRM)
1962 Heinz Schiller CH NIL (Sports Cars with Porsche)
1962 Gunther Seiffert D NIL
1962 Ernesto Prinoth I NIL
1962 Rob Schrodeder USA NIL (Retired from F.1.)
1962 Roger Penske USA NIL (NASCAR)
1962 Ernest Pieterse RSA NIL
Lotus-Climax (1st)
1963 Jim Clark GB WORLD CHAMPION (54 pts.) He also competed in the Indianapolis 500 for the first time, and only the oil on the track from winner Parnelli Jones’s car prevented him from winning, as he finished in second position and won Rookie of the Year honours.
1963 Jim Hall USA 12th (3 pts.) His place in motorsport history came as the owner and driving force of Chaparral Cars of Midland, Texas. During the 1960s in the United States Road Racing Championship, and later in the CanAm, his Chaparral cars were the most innovative cars in racing. He was a very early adopter of aerodynamics applied to race cars and was leading proponent of that technology for an entire decade. He would later turn to using off-the-shelf racecars to race in his Indycar team which was renamed Jim Hall Racing until 1996, when he retired from racing altogether. He now resides in Midland Texas, is active in the oil and gas business and motorsports racing legacies.
1963 Jo Siffert CH 14th (1 pt.) (Brabham-BRM)
1963 Trevor Taylor GB 14th (1 pt.) (BRM)
1963 Tim Parnell GB NIL (Tim Parnell managed the BRM F1 team from 1970-74, and is the son of Reg Parnell, another racing driver and team boss.)
1963 Masten Gregory USA NIL (BRM)
1963 Neville Lederle RSA NIL (In 1963 Lederle broke a leg in practice for the Rand 9 Hours sports car race and missed a large part of the 1964 season whilst recovering.)
1963 Gunther Seiffert D NIL (Retired from F.1.)
1963 Ernesto Prinoth I NIL (Retired from F.1.)
1963 Ernest Pieterse RSA NIL (No drive for ‘64, but drove for Lotus in ‘65.)
1963 Chris Amon NZ NIL
1963 Bernard Collomb F NIL
1963 Peter Arundell GB NIL
1963 Mike Hailwood GB NIL
1963 Kurt Kuhnke D NIL (He died in 1969. He was only 59 years old.)
1963 André Pilette GB NIL (Scirocco-Climax)
1963 Mike Spence GB NIL
1963 Pedro Rodriguez MEX NIL (Ferrari)
1963 Brausch Niemann RSA NIL (Formula Junior)
1963 Hap Sharp USA NIL (Brabham-BRM)
1963 Roger Ward USA NIL (USAC/Indianapolis 500. He died in 2004.)
1963 Paddy Driver USA NIL (Non-championship racing/GP motorcycle racing.)
Lotus-Climax (3rd)
1964 Jim Clark GB 3rd (32 pts.) Clark came within just a few laps of retaining his World Championship crown, but just as in 1962, an oil leak from the engine robbed him of the title, this time conceding to John Surtees. Tire failure damaging the Lotus’ suspension put paid to that year’s attempt at the Indianapolis 500.
1964 Peter Arundell GB 8th (11 pts.) While racing in Formula 2 at Reims-Gueux, he had a spin and was hit a high speed by Richie Ginther; Arundell was thrown from the car in the impact, which resulted in him missing most of the 1965 season. Lotus boss Colin Chapman saved his place in the team for 1966, although he did not enjoy any great success.
1964 Jo Siffert CH 10th (Brabham-BRM)
1964 Mike Spence GB 12th (4 pts.)
1964 Chris Amon NZ T-16th (2 pts.)
1964 Walt Hansgen USA T-16th (2 pts.) He was killed when he crashed a 7-liter Ford Mk2 sports car at the Le Mans tests during the spring of 1966.
1964 Mike Hailwood GB 21st (1 pt.)
1964 Bernard Collomb F NIL (Retired from F.1.)
1964 Peter Revson USA NIL (Sports Car racing in the USA until 1971 when he joined Tyrrell)
1964 Gerhard Mitter D NIL
1964 Moises Solana MEX NIL
Lotus-Climax (1st)
1965 Jim Clark GB WORLD CHAMPION (54 pts.) Also won the Indianapolis 500. Chapman and Clark convinced American teams to build lighter cars with the engine positioned at the back.
1965 Mike Spence GB 8th (10 pts.)
1965 Neville Lederle RSA NIL (Retired from F.1. to concentrate on his VW dealership.)
1965 Ernest Pieterse RSA NIL (Retired from F.1.)
1965 Chris Amon NZ NIL (Switched to Brabham-BRM mid-season.)
1965 Peter Arundell GB NIL
1965 Mike Hailwood GB NIL (Surtees-Ford)
1965 Brausch Niemann RSA NIL (Enduro motor Cycle racing)
1965 Chris Amon NZ NIL (Cooper-Maserati)
1965 Gerhard Mitter D NIL
1965 Moises Solana MEX NIL (Cooper-Maserati)
1965 Paul Hawkins GB NIL (He is one of only two Formula One drivers, along with Italian Alberto Ascari, to have crashed into the harbour in Monaco during a Grand Prix. He did so during the 1965 race, when he spun at the chicane after 79 of the 100 laps. He escaped from the crash unhurt. He was killed when his Lola T70GT crashed and burned at Island Bend during the 1969 Tourist Trophy race at Oulton Park.)
1965 Tony Maggs GB NIL (Retired from F.1)
1965 Dave Charlton RSA NIL (Brabham-Coventry Climax)
1965 Clive Puzey RHO NIL (RSA Formula One Championship until 1969. Lives in Australia)
1965 Innes Ireland GB NIL (BRM)
1965 Brian Gubby GB NIL (Retired from F.1.)
Lotus-Climax (5th)
1966 Jim Clark GB 6th (16 pts.)
1966 Mike Spence GB 13th (7 pts.) (Owen Racing BRM)
1966 Peter Arundell GB 17th (1 pt.) He retired from racing altogether in
1969, and later moved to Florida, where he set up a software company.
1966 Gerhard Mitter D NIL (Brabham-Cosworh)
1966 Phil Hill USA NIL (McLaren-Ford)
1966 Pedro Rodriguez MEX NIL (Cooper-Maserati)
Lotus-Cosworth (2nd)
1967 Jim Clark GB 3rd (41 pts.)
1967 Graham Hill GB 7th (15 pts.)
1967 Mike Fisher USA NIL (Retired from F.1.)
1967 Piers Courage GB NIL (Only drove one race for Lotus. Switched to BRM)
1967 Eppie Wietzes CAN NIL (Team Canada Brabham-Cosworth)
1967 Giancarlo Baghetti I NIL (He won his first three F1 races, starting with two non-championship Grand Prix races in Italy. Retiring from F.1., he contiued with European Touring Car Championship. He died of cancer in 2005, age 71.)
1967 Moises Solana MEX NIL
Gold-Leaf Lotus-Cosworth (1st)
1968 Graham Hill GB WORLD CHAMPION (48 pts.)
1968 Jo Siffert CH 7th (12 pts.)
1968 Jim Clark GB 11th (9 pts.) Clark began the season by winning in South Africa to break Fangio’s record of 24 Grands Prix victories. Then, driving in a Formula Two race at Hockenheim, his car flew off the road and hit a tree. Clark was killed instantly. Colin Chapman was devastated and publicly stated that he had lost his best friend. As a sign of respect, Chapman ordered the traditional green and yellow badge found on the nose of all Lotus road cars to be replaced with a black badge for a month following Clark’s death.
1968 Jackie Oliver GB 15th (6 pts.) (Owen Racing BRM)
1968 Mario Andretti USA NIL
1968 Moises Solana MEX NIL
Gold-Leaf Lotus-Cosworth (3rd)
1969 Jochen Rindt A 4th (22 pts.)
1969 Graham Hill GB 7th (19 pts.)
1969 Jo Siffert CH 9th
1969 Richard Attwood GB 13th
1969 Mario Andretti USA NIL (STP March-Ford)
1969 John Love RSA NIL
1969 John Miles GB NIL
1969 Jo Bonnier S NIL
1969 Rolf Stommelen D NIL
1969 Hans Hermann D NIL
Lotus-Cosworth (1st)
1970 Jochen Rindt A WORLD CHAMPION (45 pts.) Rindt died during practice at the Italian G.P. in Monza. At the time he died Rindt had won five of that year’s ten Grands Prix, which meant that he had a strong lead in the World Drivers Championship. At that stage he theoretically could have been overtaken by Ferrari driver Jacky Ickx. However Rindt’s Lotus team mate, Emerson Fittipaldi, won the penultimate Grand Prix of the year at Watkins Glen, depriving Ickx of the points he needed to win the title, and so Rindt became motor racing’s first posthumous World Champion. The trophy was presented to his Finnish widow Nina Rindt. In a tragic twist of irony, it was learned that Jochen had promised Nina he would retire from F1 if he won the world championship.
1970 Emerson Fittipaldi BR 10th (12 pts.)
1970 Graham Hill GB 13th (7 pts.) (Motor Racing Development Brabham-Ford)
1970 Reine Wisell S 16th (4 pts.)
1970 John Miles GB 19th (2 pts.) Miles quit after Rindt’s death. A qualified mechanical engineer, Miles later made a name for himself working for Lotus’s road car division. He is the son of the actor, Bernard Miles.
1970 Alex Soler-Roig E NIL
1970 John Love RSA NIL (March-Cosworth)
1970 Pete Lovely USA NIL
1970 Brian Redman GB NIL
1970 Dave Charlton RSA NIL (Brabham-Ford)
John Player Special Lotus-Cosworth (5th)
1971 Emerson Fittipaldi BR 6th (16 pts.)
1971 Reine Wisell S 12th (9 pts.) (Marlboro BRM)
1971 Alex Soler-Roig E NIL (STP March-Cosworth)
1971 Dave Walker GB NIL
1971 Pete Lovely USA NIL (Retired from F.1.)
1971 Dave Charlton RSA NIL
John Player Special Lotus-Cosworth (1st)
1972 Emerson Fittipaldi BR WORLD CHAMPION (61 pts.) The youngest World Champion at the time at 25 and the first Brazilian to be Champion.
1972 Dave Walker GB NIL (Fired from the team. Reinstated, then retired from F.1.)
1972 Reine Wisell S NIL (March-Cosworth)
1972 Dave Charlton GB NIL
John Player Special Lotus-Cosworth (1st)
1973 Emerson Fittipaldi BR 2nd (55 pts.) (McLaren-Ford)
1973 Ronnie Peterson S 3rd (52 pts.)
1973 Dave Charlton RSA NIL (Retired from F.1.)
John Player Special Lotus-Cosworth (4th)
1974 Ronnie Peterson S 5th (35 pts.)
1974 Jacky Ickx B 11th
1974 Ian Scheckter RSA NIL
1974 Paddy Driver RSA NIL
1974 Tim Schenken AUS NIL
John Player Special Lotus-Cosworth (7th)
1975 Ronnie Peterson S 13th (6 pts.)
1975 Jacky Ickx B 10th (12 pts.) (Wolf-Williams Ford)
1975 John Watson GB NIL (Penske-Ford)
1975 Guy Tunmer RSA NIL (Formula Atlantic. He was killed in a motorcycle accident in South Africa in 1999. He was 51 years old.)
1975 Jim Crawford GB NIL (Champ Cars. After retirement, he worked as a fishing boat captain. He died in 2002 of liver failure at 54.)
1975 Brian Henton GB NIL (Formula 2. Joined March F.1. in 1977)
John Player Special Lotus-Cosworth (4th)
1976 Mario Andretti USA 6th (22 pts.)
1976 Gunnar Nilsson S 10th (11 pts.)
1976 Ronnie Peterson S 11th (10 pts.) (Theodore March-Cosworth for one race.)
1976 Bob Evans GB NIL
John Player Special Lotus-Cosworth (2nd)
1977 Mario Andretti USA 3rd (47 pts.)
1977 Gunnar Nilsson S 8th (20 pts.) He died of testicular cancer. After his death, his mother, Elisabeth Nilsson, created the Gunnar Nilsson’s Cancer Foundation. Gunnar Nilsson is buried in Helsingborg, Sweden, close to his parents Arvid and Elisabeth Nilsson.
John Player Special Lotus-Cosworth (1st)
1978 Mario Andretti USA WORLD CHAMPION (64 pts.)
1978 Ronnie Peterson S 2nd (51 pts.) Peterson died from an accident at the Italian GP at Monza. Peterson’s Lotus went into the barriers hard and caught fire. He was trapped, but Hunt, Regazzoni and Depailler managed to free him from the wreck before he received more than minor burns. He was dragged free and laid in the middle of the track fully conscious, his severe leg injuries obvious to all. Hunt later said he stopped Peterson from looking at his legs to spare him further distress. At the hospital, Peterson’s X-rays showed he had 7 fractures in one leg and 3 in the other. After discussion with Ronnie himself, the surgeons decided to operate to stabilize the bones. Unfortunately, during the night, bone marrow went into Peterson’s bloodstream through the fractures, forming fat globules on his major organs including lungs, liver, and brain. By morning he was in full renal failure and was declared dead a few hours later. The cause of death was given as fat embolism. Gunnar Nilsson attended the funeral but died a couple months later. Peterson’s widow, former top model Barbro Edwardsson, never got over his death and committed suicide on December 19, 1987. She was buried, alongside Ronnie, in the Peterson family grave in Örebro.
1978 Hector Rebaque MEX 19th (1 pt.)
1978 Jean-Pierre Jarier F NIL (Candy Tyrrell-Ford)
Martini Racing Lotus-Cosworth ()
1979 Mario Andretti USA 12th (14 pts.)
1979 Hector Rebaque MEX NIL (Parmalat Brabham-Cosworth)
Team Essex Lotus-Cosworth ()
1980 Elio de Angelis I 7th (13 pts.)
1980 Mario Andretti USA 20th (1 pt.) (Marlboro Alfa Romeo)
1980 Nigel Mansell GB NIL
Olympus Lotus-Cosworth ()
1981 Elio de Angelis I 8th (14 pts.)
1981 Nigel Mansell GB 14th (8 pts.)
Olympus Lotus-Cosworth ()

NOTE: Colin Chapman dies from a heart attack.

1982 Elio de Angelis I 9th (24 pts.)
1982 Nigel Mansell GB 14th (7 pts.)
1982 Roberto Moreno I NIL (Filled in for the injured Mansell.)
Longhi Lotus-Renault ()
1983 Nigel Mansell GB 12th (10 pts.)
1983 Elio de Angelis I 17th (2 pts.)
Longhi Lotus-Renault ()
1984 Elio de Angelis I 3rd (34 pts.)
1984 Nigel Mansell GB 9th (13 pts.) (Williams-Honda)
Longhi Lotus-Renault ()
1985 Ayrton Senna BR 4th (38 pts.)
1985 Elio de Angelis I 5th (33 pts.) (Brabham-BMW)
Lotus-Renault ()
1986 Ayrton Senna BR 4th (55 pts.)
1986 Johnny Dumfries GB 13th (3 pts.) Senna didn’t want competition from a teammate, refusing Derek Warwick for Dumfries. Johnny was forced out by Honda who insisted on having a Japanese driver. Dumfries is ranked 616th in the Sunday Times Rich List 2008, with an estimated wealth of £125m. He lives with his family in London and at Mount Stuart House, 5 miles south of Rothesay on the Isle of Bute. In 2007 Dumfries House in Cumnock, Ayrshire was purchased for the nation for £45 million.
Camel Lotus-Honda (3rd)
1987 Ayrton Senna BR 3rd (57 pts.) (Marlboro McLaren-Honda)
1987 Saturo Nakajima JAP 12th (7 pts.)
Camel Lotus-Honda
1988 Nelson Piquet BR 6th (22 pts.) (He received $1m for every
Championship point he scored.)
1988 Saturo Nakajima JAP 16th (1 pt.)
Camel Lotus-Judd
1989 Nelson Piquet BR 8th (12 pts.) (Benetton-Ford)
1989 Saturo Nakajima JAP 21st (1 pt.) (Tyrrell-Ford)
Camel Lotus-Lamborghini
1990 Derek Warwick GB 14th (3pts.) (Footwork Mugen-Honda)
1990 Martin Donnelly GB NIL (During qualifying at Jerez, Donnelly crashed his car. It disintegrated leaving Donnelly lying on the track with a broken neck. He is paralyzed from the waist down.)
1990 Johnny Herbert GB NIL (Replaced the injured Donnelly)
EPSON Lotus-Judd (9th)
1991 Mika Hakkinen FIN 16th (2 pts.)
1991 Julian Bailey GB 18th (1 pt.) (Toyota BTCC/British GT/FIA GT/ESPN commentator)
1991 Johnny Herbert GB NIL
1991 Michael Bartels D NIL (DTM series/FIA GT Championship)
EPSON Lotus-Ford (5th)
1992 Mika Hakkinen FIN 8th (11 pts.) (McLaren-Ford)
1992 Johnny Herbert GB 14th
Hitachi Lotus-Ford (6th)
1993 Johnny Herbert GB 9th
1993 Alessandro Zanardi I 20th ( pt.)
1993 Pedro Lamy POR NIL
Hitachi Lotus-Mugen-Honda (NIL)
1994 Eric Bernard F 18th (4 pts.) (French Sports Car Championship)
1994 Johnny Herbert GB NIL (Benetton-Renault)
1994 Pedro Lamy POR NIL (Minardi-Ford)
1994 Alessandro Zanardi I NIL (Indy Cars. Later to join Winfield Williams-Supertec in ‘99.)
1994 Phillippe Adams B NIL (Belgian Sports Car Championship)
1994 Mika Salo FIN NIL (Tyrrell-Yamaha)

In 1994, Lotus declared bankruptcy. It was acquired by David Hunt, brother of James, but then folded permanently. A sad tale to a great name.

Lotus Racing, also referred to by the company name 1Malaysia F1 Team by the Malaysian media and parliament, made its debut in the 2010 Formula One season. Despite Lotus Racing and the former Team Lotus not being connected by much more than name, Team Principal, Tony Fernandes, was clear that if and when the team were to win it would not be Lotus Racing’s first but Lotus’ 80th victory. The team have said they will use the Team Lotus name in the 2011 season, but are facing legal action from Group Lotus over the use of the Lotus name.The team gained its entry after BMW announced they would withdraw from Formula One at the end of the 2009 season.

Lotus-Cosworth (10th NIL)
2010 Heikki Kovalainen FIN 20th (1 pt.)
2010 Jarno Trulli I NIL
Team Lotus-Renault (10th NIL)
2011 Heikki Kovalainen FIN NIL
2011 Jarno Trulli I NIL
2011 Karun Chandhok IND NIL

At the end of 2011 Caterham Group takes over Team Lotus. Caterham Group is thus the  parent company name for the range of automotive, motor racing, technology and innovation companies that sit within a single group business under the stewardship of Caterham Group CEO Riad Asmat. Team Lotus is rebranded as Caterham F1 Team for 2012 and beyond.

Number of Drivers’ Championships: 6
Number of Constructor’s Championships: 7

LYNCAR

TEAM: LYNCAR
NATIONALITY: GB
INCEPTION: 1974-1975
COMMENT: Lyncar was a Formula One constructor from the United Kingdom. They participated in 2 grands prix, entering a total of 2 cars. Lyncar’s F1 participation was largely at the insistence of McLaren engine builder and amateur racer John Nicholson, who had campaigned a Lyncar Formula Atlantic with great success. He commissioned Lyncar’s Martin Slater to build a Formula One car for him, which entered the non-championship races and the British Grand Prix in 1974-5, qualifying for the latter. The car was later updated and entered for Emilio de Villota in the second-level Aurora F1 series.

YEAR NAME NAT. POINTS/RESULTS
Lyncar-Cosworth (NIL)
1974 John Nicholson NZ NIL
Lyncar-Cosworth (NIL)
1975 John Nicholson NZ NIL (Nicholson was the 1973 and 1974 British Formula Atlantic champion, and in his ‘day job’ was engine builder for McLaren. He commissioned Martin Slater of Lyncar to build him an F1 car, but Nicholson’s ambitions stretched mainly to competing in non-championship races. After his F1 exploits, Nicholson turned his sporting attenion to powerboat racing.)