The new team used the Lotus name under licence from Group Lotus and was unrelated to the original Team Lotus.
The team took a hiatus from F1 from 1994 till 2010 when a a new Malaysian team called Lotus Racing was awarded an entry. In all it had five Drivers’ Championships and one Constructors championship. Team Lotus continued to be a major player in Formula One up until the late 1980s. Major success came in 1963 with the Lotus 25, which won Team Lotus its first F1 World Constructors Championship. A Lotus Formula One car driven by Stirling Moss won the marque’s first Grand Prix in 1960 at Monaco.
Lotus first entered Formula One through its sister company Team Lotus in 1958.
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