nationality birth_date article_title name retired
british 20 may 1960 david hunt -lrb- racing driver -rrb-
 david hunt 1988
david hunt -lrb- racing driver -rrb-

david hunt -lrb- born 20 may 1960 in belmont , sutton -rrb- , is a british former racing driver and younger brother of 1976 formula one world champion james hunt .
hunt started racing at 15 and moved up to formula ford in 1981 .
he competed in the british formula three championship for five seasons from 1983 to 1987 against the likes of ayrton senna , martin donnelly , martin brundle and damon hill .
he raced in the international formula 3000 championship in 1988 and in the same year tested for the benetton formula 1 team .
he then quit racing .
at the end of 1994 he sold his multi-level marketing business , selling water filters , and purchased the bankrupt lotus team to try to save it , but had no success .
he continued to work on getting lotus back into the top echelons of motor sport until 2009 , when he sold the rights to the lotus name to the litespeed formula 3 team .
litespeed applied to compete in the 2010 formula one season but was refused entry .
however , a lotus entry backed by the malaysian government was later given an entry for 2010 after the selection process was re-opened following the announcement that bmw sauber would withdraw from the sport at the conclusion of the 2009 season .
the team was called lotus racing .
in the summer of 2010 , 1malaysia which ran an f1 team as lotus racing under licence from lotus cars bought team lotus ventures ltd from david hunt .
after this 1malaysia would run its team as team lotus from 2011 onwards .
