r/motorsports • u/blazingsucks • 3d ago

Anyone else remember Lotus？

Lotus used to be such a force in F1—7 Constructors' titles, 6 Drivers' titles, absolute legends like Jim Clark and Emerson Fittipaldi. It’s been ages since they left, but now they’re killing it in the EV market with Lotus Tech and solid Q3 numbers. Anyone else think it’d be awesome to see them back in motorsport? Spend some them money and back to F1, Formula E, whatever—just feels like their name belongs on a grid somewhere.

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u/lr_science 3d ago

They were in F1 2012-2015: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_F1

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u/givekimiaicecream 3d ago

That was a confusing mess with 2 teams called lotus at the same time at one point

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u/EVENo94 2d ago

It was even more confusing in constructors standings where you have team name and engine supplier next to each other. So Lotus was called Lotus Renault and Lotus Renault was called Renault

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u/bigdogg2783 3d ago

This question was asked here less than a day ago https://www.reddit.com/r/motorsports/s/fqEj4nSaz0

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u/creep_nu 3d ago

Almost like this is a bot post. Hmmm

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u/Poison_Pancakes 3d ago

Yea, what a strange coincidence.