If you’d also like to see which Lotus F1 cars we thought were best, take a look at our top 10 Lotus F1 cars list.Įlio de Angelis, Lotus, 1983 San Marino GPĪfter a year with the struggling Shadow team, de Angelis joined Lotus for 1980 and took a second place in the Brazilian GP, round two of the campaign. We didn’t include their achievements at other teams and have excluded the ‘Lotus’ era at the Enstone team, which later became Renault/ Alpine. We’ve considered the amount of success the drivers scored with Lotus, the impact they had on the team and the circumstances of their time there. That made producing this list tricky, but here’s our pick of the top 10 Lotus F1 drivers.
Elder son Michael is following closely in father’s footsteps and this season competes in Formula 1 for the McLaren team.Many great drivers raced Lotus machinery between its F1 arrival in 1958 and Team Lotus folding in 1994. With his two sons and his nephew, he achieved yet another first when all four family members competed in the same Ind圜ar race in Milwaukee in 1990. He is Ind圜ar’s all-time leader in pole positions and laps led, was the first to win both Ind圜ar and Formula 1 championships and the first to win both the Daytona 500 and the Indianapolis 500. He returned to full-time Ind圜ar competition in 1983, winning his third Driver of the Year award in 1984, making him the only man ever to win the trophy in three different decades. Andretti won the final race of the season in Japan and in 1977 rose to third in the world rankings. Determined to become World Champion, he joined Colin Chapman’s Lotus team in 1976, and together they set about restoring the winning ways of the legendary marque. While not abandoning Ind圜ars entirely, he sought new challenges by turning to Formula 1 where he won his first Grand Prix, driving for Ferrari, in South Africa in 1971. In the early 1970’s, Ind圜ar racing became an all-oval track series, which did not appeal to the adventurous Andretti. Winner of the first Driver of the Year award in 1967, he topped this on its 25th anniversary in 1992 by being awarded the title Driver of the Quarter-Century – a feat few drivers are likely to emulate.Īndretti first achieved success in 1965 when he finished third in his first Indianapolis 500 and went on to win his initial Ind圜ar race and subsequently the championship, which he retained the following year. At the age of 53 he shows no desire to retire but is set for another season of Ind圜ar racing with the Newman-Haas team and new teammate, Nigel Mansell. Mario Andretti has dedicated his life to motor racing.
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