Red Bull continued to dominate and Daniel Ricciardo continued to impress on the second and final day of Young Driver Testing at Abu Dhabi, with the Australian setting the fastest lap of the day once more. The Red Bull protégé Ricciardo smashed the Yas Marina circuit’s previous fastest lap, setting a time nearly nearly 1.4s [...]

Red Bull continue to dominate the world of Formula 1 as Daniel Ricciardo impressively set the fastest time of the day, a time which would have put him right up in third on last weekend’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix grid. The Aussie impressed greatly, beating drivers with decent F1 experience, including Force India test driver [...]

The legendary black and gold JPS livery sported by the original Team Lotus will return for the 2011 F1 season, for the first time since 1986. Lotus Racing’s CEO Riad Asmat explained the decision to bring back the classic design: “When we first unveiled our 2010 car there was unanimous praise for our decision to [...]

BBC sources are reporting that Lotus are close to a Renault engine deal, and that the Malaysian-backed team will not stay with current suppliers Cosworth into 2011. Lotus have been the best new team of the season so far, and the engines are reliable and powerful enough, so it is surprising that the team are [...]

TEAM PRINCIPALS: Ross BRAWN (Mercedes), Tony FERNANDES (Lotus), Christian HORNER (Red Bull), Martin WHITMARSH (McLaren) PRESS CONFERENCE Q: First of all a little recap of how the day has gone for all of you. How have things gone for Lotus Racing? Tony FERNANDES: Tough day today. We had three gearbox failures, two on Jarno’s (Trulli) [...]

Heikki Kovalainen (19th, 19th) “It felt fine out there today. I had just one problem at the end with the power steering, but that was the only issue with my car. I’m not sure this circuit suits our car as well as it does with some of the top cars, but compared to the other [...]

It’s the second in Lotus’ two home Grands Prix of the season, and they will be hoping to be closer to competition with the midfield runners with yet more updates for the British round at the team’s ‘spiritual home’, Silverstone. Technical director Mike Gascoyne explained the updates. “We have a number of lightweight parts across [...]

The European Grand Prix was, somewhat surprisingly, a exciting and controversial race. We saw the first ever Safety car in Valencia due to easily the worst crash of the year. The commotion happened on lap 10 when Mark Webber was slipstreaming Heikki Kovalainen’s Lotus on the straight onto turn 12. Chaos ensued, with the safety [...]

McLaren Lewis Hamilton “The first session looked quite good for us. But it was always going to be interesting to see how quickly the blown-diffuser cars could get up to speed – and they looked very competitive this afternoon, particularly over a single lap. And the grip they appear to have through the high-speed stuff [...]

Lotus have yet to score a point this year, but Heikki Kovalainen lapped the other new teams in finishing 16th in Sunday’s Canadian Grand Prix. In qualifying for the Canadian GP, Heikki Kovalainen was just two hundredths of a second off beating the Sauber of Kamui Kobayashi, just showing the impressive performance by the Malaysian-owned [...]