Team Lotus is currently defunct. In early 1995, they entered into a agreement to operate with Pacific Grand Prix to form Pacific Team Lotus. After the 1995 season, Pacific announced that they are withdrawing from Formula One.
For information about Team Lotus before 1991, contact:
Classic Team Lotus
Ketteringham Hall
Wymondham
Norfolk NR18 9RS
ENGLAND
Voice: +44 1953 601621
Team Lotus has won seven Constructors' Cups - 1963, 1965, 1968, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1978
Six times drivers have won the Drivers' World Championship while at Team Lotus - Jim Clark (1963, 1965), Graham Hill (1968), Jochen Rindt (1970), Emerson Fittipaldi (1972), Mario Andretti (1978).
Lotus-built cars have won 79 Grands Prix.
Unfortunately, no.
Currently, Ferrari has 105 wins and 8 Constructor's Cups, while Team Lotus has 79 wins and 7 Constructor's Cups.
However, if you had asked this question in 1980 ...
Innes Ireland
One of the last high-living drivers of F1, he came to fame in a Lotus
Formula Junior and won several F1 races for Lotus, including their first
ever win and their first Championship win.
Jim Clark
The greatest driver to get behind the wheel of a F1 car. World Champion
for Lotus in 1963 and 1965. Indianapolis 500 winner 1965. Drove and
won for Team Lotus until his death behind the wheel of a Lotus in 1968.
Graham Hill
World Champion for Lotus in 1968. The only man to have won Le Mans,
the Indianapolis 500 and the F1 World Championship.
Jochen Rindt
World Champion for Lotus in 1970. The only posthumous F1 drivers
champion, he was killed driving a Lotus 72 in practice for the 1970
Italian Grand Prix.
Emerson Fittipaldi
World Champion for Lotus in 1972.
Ayrton Senna
The last person to win a Formula One race driving a Lotus. Three-time
World Champion. Drove for Team Lotus from 1985 through 1987 and had
his first six F1 wins in a Lotus.
Mario Andretti
World Champion for Lotus in 1978.
Nigel Mansell
World Champion 1992 and IndyCar champion 1993. Though he was a good
driver he realized little of his promise while with Team Lotus. While
with the team, he broke Lotuses and slipped on painted lines on the road
from 1980 through 1984.
Yes. Mansell's first year at Lotus was 1980, which was Andretti's last year with Team Lotus. They competed together in the 1980 Dutch and Italian Grands Prix.
The "name" sponsors of Team Lotus have been:
Gold Leaf cigarettes (1968 - 1971)
The cars were painted red and white with gold accents.
John Player Special cigarettes (1972 - 1978, 1981 - 1986)
The cars were painted black with gold accents.
Martini & Rossi (1979)
The cars were painted dark green with red and blue accents.
Essex Petroleum (1980)
The cars were painted dark blue with red and silver accents.
Camel cigarettes (1987 - 1990)
The cars were painted bright yellow.
Castrol (1992 - 1993)
The cars were painted a combination of green, white and yellow.
Team Lotus had no name sponsor in 1991 and 1994.
Team Lotus is currently not fielding cars in Formula One.
This a company formed in 1994 by the Chapman Family "to represent the continuing involvement of the Chapman family with the Lotus marque," that is, the company will support owners of single-seater, open wheel (monoposto) Lotuses from the Type 12 to the Type 102.