Talk:Team Lotus

message: Can somebodby please find a non-copywright pic of the beautiful 33? We need one!  Trekphiler 00:30, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Lotus 33

message: The article assumes too much prior knowledge. It says "Lotus achieved rapid success with the 1953 Mk 6, and the 1954 Mk 8," but it hasn't told us what formula this was in! The next paragraph goes on to casually mention Formula 2, which wasn't even wikilinked, but it's not clear if the 1953 and 1954 cars mentioned were F2. Please fix this and remember, your readers might know nothing at all about Team Lotus or racing. --kingboyk 06:16, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  What formula? 

message: Now, it's all a bit hazy, but didn't a 109 debut at the 1994 Spanish Grand Prix in the hands of Herbert (with Alex still stuck in the 107D), and turn out to be something of a dog, and the improvement at Monza was due entirely to a brand new Mugen engine simply pushing the thing down the straights a lot faster (and due to Johnny, of course)? The article as it stands makes it sound like the 109 chassis was responsible for the upturn in progress, when (again, this is dependant on my memory) the new car didn't actually bring around many changes - I remember an interview with Herbert some years later where he was actually very disparaging about it.
Also, I feel that the Mugen Honda/Jordan line (as well as containing the incorrect date) is a bit irrelevant... Someone hit someone, and the first person's team, using the same make of engine a few years later, won a race a few years down the line? It seems less relevant than, say, listing the points scored in 90/91, or Warwick's bravery at Monza/Jerez in '90, or the whole Senna/Warwick/Dumfries thing - none of which probably belong, being footnotes in the team's dying days, so I really don't see the need for the Jordan-Mugen reference...
And maybe Senna's time with the team needs a little expansion... for example, the number of poles he managed, or that in 1985 he was often the fastest man on the track, but the car usually let him down.
But I'm not going to edit anything without a bit of feedback - for one, I could be wrong ;)
Tom Prankerd 18:43, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lotus 109/Other Bits 

message: other than Ferrari, Williams and McLaren...biased much?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by GarlicBreath (talk • contribs) 03:30, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think it's biased. If you consider number of wins, poles, points, fastest laps, WCCs and WDCs; in each case Lotus is in 4th place on the all-time list, a substantial margin ahead of the team in 5th place - I think that qualifies them as "one of the most successful F1 teams of all time". DH85868993 (talk) 08:13, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  One of the most successful? 

message: There is a photo on the Team Lotus page which has a caption "Lotus 77". When the photo is enlarged it displays a name "Image:Lotus79.jpg". It looks more like a 77 than a 79 to me. How do we fix this please?  GTHO (talk) 03:05, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lotus 77 or Lotus 79 

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replies: text: Fixed. Pyrope 12:01, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Image copyright problem with Image:Lotus logo.png

message: Now that Lotus Have bought 25% of the renault team should we add this to this page or should we create a new page for Lotus Renault GP?--Brainybrains 20:54, 11 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: See discussion at Wikipedia talk:F1#Here we go again (Lotus/Renault). DH85868993 (talk) 05:36, 12 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lotus Renault GP 

message: Given that there are two distinct teams with the name 'Team Lotus' (the original Chapman team, and the current Fernandez team), the most logical move seems to me to introduce a Team Lotus (Disambiguation) page linking here and to the Lotus Racing (or Team Lotus 2011... or whatever)
Aegidian (talk) 19:43, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: A disambiguation page already exists at Lotus. I'm not sure nesting the disambig pages will be helpful. --Falcadore (talk) 03:23, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Indeed, and a whole separate page is certainly not required to disambiguate between just two pages. That's what hatnotes are for. Pyrope 14:24, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disambiguation? 

message: What do you guys currently think about the new Team Lotus Navbox do you guys like it or does it need editing.
Me12356 (talk) 13:44, 03 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Your Feedback 

message: Hill was badly injured (broken legs broken, I believe) he was not killed racing a Lotus, but while piloting a private plane  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.58.218.214 (talk) 19:57, 10 November 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: You're right, and if the article says that, it should be changed. Can't see where though, unless I've missed it. Bretonbanquet (talk) 20:20, 10 November 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I can see how the list of "seriously injured or killed" drivers in the 1960s and 70s section could be easily misread this way. Britmax (talk) 22:36, 10 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Graham Hill

message: The following is unclear/confusing because the name Group Lotus has not been previously introduced:
On 15 September 2009 the FIA announced that the Malaysian backed team Lotus Racing had been granted admission into the 2010 season.[9] Group Lotus later terminated the licence for future seasons as a result of what it called "flagrant and persistent breaches of the licence by the team".
The same goes for other mentions of Group Lotus, obviously.
81.191.184.223 (talk) 20:42, 14 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Who/what is Group Lotus? 

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