Lotus have today launched their 2010 challenger – the Lotus Cosworth T127 at the Royal Horticultural Hall in London.
Team Principal Tony Fernandes was joined with drivers Jarno Trulli, Heikki Kovalainen and Fairuz Fauzy to take the wraps off the car in front of a 500 strong live audience. Fernandes said:
“I am extremely proud to be here today and to be able to show the world the fruits of the team’s hard work over the last five months. It’s humbling for me and my fellow shareholders, Kamarudin Meranun and SM Nasarudin to see how a team that five months ago didn’t even exist is now a thriving workforce, full of enthusiasm and passion for Lotus Racing and the challenges ahead and capable of producing such a beautiful machine in such a short time.
“Now we’ve achieved two major milestones; confirming our entry and unveiling our car, but now the real work starts. Next we move on to testing and the season ahead and I’m confident that the team will exceed expectations wherever we go, and will do so on a wave of support around the world that has been growing daily since we first unleashed Lotus Racing back in September ’09.”
Tony Fernandes
Also on the stage as the car was unveiled was Lotus’ Chief Technical Officer Mike Gascoyne who added:
“The last few months have been some of the most challenging of my career, but it’s been a challenge the whole team and I have thrived on since we first started work on the car up in Norfolk. I’m delighted that we’ve reached this point, and now we have a beautiful car that gives us a great base to work from for the season ahead and a fighting chance of going racing in the right way, with a winning mentality. The hard part starts now, and I know everyone in the team and I are up for whatever lies ahead.”
Mike Gascoyne
Lotus have based the livery on Team Lotus' classic green & gold. This is Jim Clark driving in the 1967 Lotus 49.
The Lotus livery has gone back to the classic green & gold livery used in the days of Team Lotus, and this seems to have divided opinions; here are some of my followers on Twitter’s opinions:
Cubejam: “@AnF1Blog_com So true to the old team. Beautiful at every angle. Front runner of the new comers for sure”
stephfarnsworth: “@AnF1Blog_com at first I thought disgusting now I’m thinking a bit dull and dark. It hasn’t won me over.”
TommyB89: “@AnF1Blog_com Dull”
Read what other people are saying about the Lotus below:
Below is a gallery of the Lotus Cosworth T127 which includes studio shots and pics from the car’s first shakedown at Silverstone which was driven by the team’s test driver Fairuz Fauzy:
Video
Here is a video of the car’s Silverstone shakedown:
Lotus have a new website.
What do you think of the new livery? Leave a comment!
Images (C) Lotus Racing
Aww *word I shouldn’t say* I’ve been quoted and I sound rcompletely stuck up
*jokes* Stand by what I said though 
it’s ok looking but all that matters is the speed of it,i dont think they will score many points because both trulli and kovalainen are slow in races,good article though
I’m surprised Virgin didn’t develop their front wing as much. I can’t see the advantages of having an under developed front wing going into the season. Maybe they were thinking they wanted a good baseline to work from? Lotus seem to have the edge right away.
Looking at an F1 you can kind of tell who is going to be faster. For example Red Bull & McLaren look like winning cars. Virgin looks under developed & Lotus looks the strongest of the two. Not exactly the most scientific method but it has worked in the past.
The livery is far from dull, its got bright yellow & white racing stripes for crying out loud, on top of that it has right yellow wheels! Colour blind?
I hope they do well. Thanks for quoting me.
The green is too dark and dull like a miserable, wet Monday morning
*jokes*
wrongwrongwrongwrong!