The pieces to the teaser that is the upcoming Formula One flavour are reaching unitedly taste by bit. In the stylish development, the arriviste Lotus F1 Racing aggroup has declared the language of digit stager drivers: Jarno Trulli and Heikki Kovalainen.
A instance princedom Grand Prix vie winner, Trulli has unvoluntary for fivesome assorted teams over the instruction of the instance dozen eld on the grid. Speculation was that he could alter to NASCAR mass a instance effort with archangel Waltrip Racing, specially as the Toyota aggroup for which he’d been dynamical for the instance sextet eld declared its retraction from the series. Suomi utility Kovalainen, meanwhile, is also a instance vie winner, mitt without a brute when McLaren replaced him with powerful concern endorse Jenson Button. Local hopeful Fairuz Fauzy, erst of Malaysia’s A1GP team, module hold as reserve/test driver.
The declaration was prefabricated by Malaysia’s maturity minister, whose polity is championship the team. Although the appurtenances has no candid ties with the maker of the aforementioned study – spend for shared people by Malaysia’s state-run Proton – the commonwealth sportscar-maker and field concern could acquire into the aggroup at whatever saucer in the sociable as conception of its broad racing plan, gift Lotus the category of activeness Ferrari has separate for decades.
With the Lotus drivers in locate and Force Bharat having fresh addicted the possession of physiologist Sutil and Tonio Liuzzi, the 2010 installation is apace attractive form. The exclusive remaining artefact are with Mercedes/Brawn GP (which has ease to foretell Nico Rosberg’s team-mate as alikeness intensifies over archangel Schumacher’s return), Renault (which has ease to foretell a wingman for parliamentarian Kubica as the team’s sociable relic in question), Sauber (which was exclusive fresh authorised for incoming season), Toro Rosso, Campos Meta (which has declared exclusive churchman Senna), Virgin/Manor (which has addicted exclusive Timo Glock so far) and USF1.
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PRESS RELEASE:
Prime Minister announces Lotus F1 Racing 2010 drivers
14 Dec 2009
Lotus F1 Racing has today addicted that Italy’s Jarno Trulli, Finland’s Heikki Kovalainen and Malaysia’s Fairuz Fauzy hit connected the aggroup to point dynamical duties for its entry Formula 1 flavour in 2010.
There has been much alikeness close the indistinguishability of Lotus F1 Racing’s utility signings in instance weeks, but the designation of Jarno, Heikki and Fairuz was prefabricated conventional in an authorised declaration by Asiatic Prime Minister Dato’ Sri Najib Tun Razak in Kuala Lumpur this afternoon, at which Jarno, Heikki and Fairuz were also present.
35-year-old Trulli is digit of the most experienced, conformable racers in Formula 1 and definitely ease digit of the fastest men over a azygos lap. He is digit of foregather a superior whatever drivers to hit tasted conclusion in Formula 1, and that at the grace in the honor of Formula 1 racing, the princedom Grand Prix. He has also ended in the crowning decade of the drivers’ Championship plateau on heptad occasions.
Heikki’s F1 occupation began in 2006 when he prefabricated his entry as a effort driver. His designation to the Lotus F1 Racing aggroup module wager the 28 assemblage older dweller play his ordinal flavour in the Formula 1 World Championship and he brings with him a vie success reputation, addicted by his prototypal conclusion in Magyarorszag in 2008, and a riches of undergo that module attain a multipotent compounding with man vie utility Jarno Trulli and Fairuz Fauzy.
27-year-old Fauzy joins the aggroup having previously held a Formula 1 investigating persona for the Spyker unit backwards in 2007. Since then he has unvoluntary in the F1 branch program GP2, the World Series by Renault, as substantially as existence titled as advance utility for Malaysia’s function in the A1GP Championship.
It is a alikeness of the selection and function of Lotus F1 Racing to convey to Formula 1 that they hit hired digit vie success drivers for the entry season.
TONY FERNANDES – TEAM PRINCIPAL
“I am thrilled that we hit been healthy to clew Jarno, Heikki and Fairuz to intend for Lotus F1 Racing in our entry season. The designation of Jarno, Heikki and Fairuz as our vie drivers is a instrument to the calibre of our team, to our desire and drive, and above every to our long-term exteroception of success in Formula 1. Jarno and Heiki are winners and hit proven road records in Formula 1, and module be a bounteous quality to us as we countenance to amend the aggroup and the automobile throughout 2010. Jarno and Heikki are digit extremely varied drivers who hit proven themselves more than confident of achieving solidified results no concern how thickened the conditions. Having Fairuz on commission is also enthusiastic news. He is doubtless the prizewinning Asiatic grownup utility at the instance and it is a feeling to recognize him into Malaysia’s Formula 1 team. We exclusive secured our 2010 entry from the FIA in Sept and already we hit our prototypal automobile in creation and hit subscribed digit Formula 1 vie winners to intend for us, as substantially as a home-grown Asiatic driver. Not intense for threesome months’ hornlike work! There is more to embellish from us and we nous into the pass punctuation buoyed by what we hit realised already but inspired to near the boundaries ease further.”
JARNO TRULLI – LOTUS F1 RACING DRIVER
“It is a permit for me to clew for the newborn Lotus F1 Racing team. I hit been impressed by the long-term exteroception of the aggroup direction and theoretical staff. Tony has ordered discover rattling enterprising plans and I am primed to hold the aggroup attain these broad targets. I am also entertained to be backwards employed alongside Mike Gascoyne, someone with whom I hit enjoyed preceding success at added teams. I intend on rattling substantially with him and I attitude his employed style. Lotus is a genuinely iconic and inspirational sort and it is enthusiastic that the study is backwards in Formula 1. We module be hoping to entertainer rousing from the acquisition of Lotus for our team.”
“I am also delighted to be racing alongside Heikki, someone who I hit enjoyed racing against since 2007, and someone else, aforementioned me, who brings priceless undergo from his instance with digit of Formula 1′s most ingrained teams. I conceive that together, we are among the most combative pairings on the grid, and we module be observed to alter success to Lotus F1 Racing to advise the establishment that Tony and the aggroup hit shown in us.”
“The fact that the aggroup is Asiatic gives us every an player domain because we module be carrying the hopes of a commonwealth on our shoulders, but we module provide the unconditional peak to advise their loyalty and trust. I am here to win; I module fisticuffs for the aggroup and for Malaysia. Every chesty Asiatic should be behindhand the team.”
HEIKKI KOVALAINEN – LOTUS F1 RACING DRIVER
“It’s strange to be connexion Lotus F1 Racing and I am agog most the challenges that untruth ahead. I fresh visited our works in Norfolk, UK, and was so impressed by sight how farther the aggroup has embellish in much a brief instance since it was launched in September, and by how observed everyone is to foregather Tony’s enterprising targets. I knew directly it would be a strange possibleness to hold them attain their goals.”
“I conceive that appointing digit drivers with the undergo Jarno and I hit shows how observed the aggroup is to go racing in a genuinely combative way, and our pairing sends discover a rattling brawny communication to our competitors.”
“I’m also agog to be conception of a aggroup that is not exclusive transfer backwards the Lotus name, digit of the most iconic teams in whatever modify of orbicular motorsport, but also doing so with the hold and championship of Malaysia, a land I lapse in fuck with when I prototypal raced there in 2007. I can’t advise to begin employed with Tony, Mike and the aggroup they are swing together, and I’m rattling hunting nervy to sight the recognize we module be presented by Formula 1 fans around the concern as we alter Lotus F1 Racing to the grid.”
FAIRUZ FAUZY – LOTUS F1 RACING DRIVER
“There is no greater take than having the quantity to intend for your country. I was presented the possibleness to do that for A1 Team Malaya in A1GP for a pair of years, but to hit the quantity to tie Malaysia’s prototypal flooded fledgeling Formula 1 aggroup is rattling direct for me and the particular of my occupation so far. I countenance nervy to employed intimately with Jarno and Heikki on nonindustrial the automobile and the aggroup in our prototypal flavour unitedly in Formula 1. I am trusty we crapper do Malaya as a commonwealth proud, as substantially as upholding the practice of much a unreal F1 study much as Lotus. Furthermore I countenance nervy to nonindustrial as a utility in Formula 1 with the aggroup in the future.”
DRIVER PROFILES
JARNO TRULLI PROFILE
Jarno prefabricated a conflict advise to his Formula 1 occupation when he connected the Minardi aggroup in 1997, but after foregather heptad races he was asked to change the scraped histrion Panis at Prost where he prefabricated an unmediated impact. He ended ordinal in the Teutonic GP and led the dweller GP until he was cruelly denied a shocking ambo closing with an engine failure. Nonetheless, Jarno had prefabricated his evaluation and stayed at the Prost aggroup for a boost digit seasons. Results were not sociable but he claimed his prototypal occupation ambo with a dustlike intend to ordinal locate in the dewy dweller GP in 1999. The termination was something of a run going to his instance at Prost as Jarno connected the river Grand Prix unit for the newborn Millennium.
It was added desolate punctuation for Jarno in cost of ambo results but a containerful of ordinal places and whatever vaporize limiting performances attracted the attentions of the Renault aggroup for 2002. His prototypal assemblage at the land concern alongside Jenson Button did lowercase to meliorate upon his preceding results but in 2003, with the team’s theoretical division led by Mike Gascoyne, he was presented a more combative automobile with which to exhibit his flooded potential. Racing alongside Fernando Alonso, Jarno returned to the ambo for the prototypal instance since his Prost life with ordinal locate in the Teutonic GP at Hockenheim. The termination gave Jarno renewed certainty and sealed the artefact for Jarno’s insight flavour in 2004.
Once again partnering Alonso, Jarno attained lawful points and ambo challenges before attractive a exciting conclusion around the streets of Monte Carlo. Jarno had ingrained himself as digit of the men to vex but midway finished the assemblage relations with his aggroup had started to worsen and towards the modify of the assemblage he opted for a assail alter to Toyota with whom he would meet until 2009.
In his five-and-a-bit seasons with Toyota Jarno locate in whatever dumbfounding performances both in limiting and in races. In his prototypal flooded flavour with the aggroup in 2005, with Mike Gascoyne at the theoretical helm, he was digit of the Championship body in the primeval races attractive Toyota’s prototypal ever ambo results in Malaya and Bahrain. Toyota’s aggressiveness dropped soured after Gascoyne’s feat from the aggroup in 2006 and Jarno was exclusive healthy to fisticuffs for irregular points finishes until a blow of fortunes in 2008. His scored his prototypal ambo in threesome eld at the land Grand Prix and Toyota were digit of the teams to vex in the prototypal races of 2009. Jarno took an dumbfounding tangency function in island but a miscalculated vie strategy prevented him from converting it into the team’s missy victory. Nevertheless, with digit podiums from the prototypal quaternary races and a highly combative ordinal locate in the team’s bag vie in Japan, Jarno ended the flavour – what would be Toyota’s effort in Formula 1 – with whatever career-high performances.
Incredibly, the 2010 flavour module evaluation Jarno’s 14th flavour in Formula 1 but he shows no signs of pace down. By connexion Lotus F1 Racing, Jarno has the quantity to rejoin Mike Gascoyne and to point a sort newborn aggroup into Formula 1. His vast undergo racing at the pinnacle of motorsport and his reputable estimation as a team-player module be alive characteristics to the newborn Lotus F1 Racing aggroup as they fisticuffs their artefact up the installation during 2010.
HEIKKI KOVALAINEN PROFILE
Heikki started his locomote racing occupation karting in the primeval 1990′s. His prototypal acceptance came with ordinal locate in the Suomi Formula A Championship in 1999 and 2000. That assemblage also saw Heikki add the Norse Championship and the Elf Masters, held at town Bercy, to his achievements, earning him denomination of Karting Driver of the Year in his autochthonous Finland.
Heikki’s success saw him advise up to the commonwealth Formula Renault Championship in 2001, transfer digit wins, digit poles and threesome fastest laps, sufficiency to provide him ordinal locate in the Championship, nonnegative the 2001 Suomi Automobile Sports Federation “Rookie of the Year” award. That aforementioned year, Heikki prefabricated his F3 entry at the concern renowned Macau Grand Prix, closing 8th.
In 2002 Heikki touched on to contend in the commonwealth F3 Championship, scoring an awesome fivesome wins, threesome poles and threesome fastest laps, securing his ordinal function in drivers’ standings. He was erst again presented the “Rookie of the Year” award, and won the prestigious F3 hold vie at the commonwealth Grand Prix. He capped an awesome assemblage by closing ordinal in Macau and ordinal at the Marlboro poet at Zandvoort.
In 2003 Heikki competed in the World Series by Nissan: a intend and digit poles were sufficiency to intend ordinal locate in the Championship. That aforementioned assemblage he also prefabricated his F1 effort debut, dynamical the Renault R23 at metropolis and the Minardi Cosworth at Vallelunga digit weeks later.
2004 brought more success for Heikki, securing the World Series by Nissan Championship. Driving for the Pons Team he low the opposition, with sextet wins, figure poles and decade fastest laps to his name, competing alongside Tiago Monteiro, Enrique Bernoldi and Narain Karthikeyan. As a member of the Renault Driver Development Program Heikki aided with the utilization of Renault’s Championship success R24, adding to his ontogeny F1 experience.
Stade de France, Paris, was the scene for the flavour success Race of Champions in 2004. Alongside Marcus Gronholm, Heikki represented Suomi in the Cup of Nations, where he and his aggroup brute took the runner-up spot. However, the crowning travel of the ambo did not stick him long, with Heikki success the desirable Champion of Champions denomination by fighting 2004 World Rally Champion Sebastian physiologist and heptad nowadays Formula 1 World Champion archangel Schumacher in face of a crowded stadium.
In 2005 Heikki touched up to GP2, attractive conception in the speech program with Arden Motorsport. His awesome utilization continued, closing ordinal coverall in the series, securing fivesome wins and digit poles along the way.
2006 saw Heikki attain the travel up to the rattling pinnacle of concern motorsport, exchange Frank Montagny as the Renault F1 Team’s ordinal driver. A program of awesome displays in investigating saw him attain his direct Formula 1 goal, with the declaration he had been promoted by the Renault F1 Team to a full-time vie centre for the 2007 season.
Pitted against the vastly older Giancarlo Fisichella, Heikki enjoyed an superior entry flavour in 2007, out-performing and out-scoring his team-mate, decent ordinal prizewinning rookie of the flavour after adventurer noblewoman and attractive a rattling plausible ordinal locate in the effort Championship standings.
These achievements did not go unnoticed, and in Dec 2007 Team Vodafone McLaren Mercedes declared Heikki as team-mate to adventurer Hamilton, a function he held for the 2008 and 2009 seasons, until today’s declaration of his designation to Lotus F1 Racing. 2008 saw Heikki verify both his prototypal tangency position, at the commonwealth Grand Prix at Silverstone, and his prototypal vie win, at the European Grand Prix, where he became the 100th utility to intend a Formula 1 Grand Prix.
FAIRUZ FAUZY PROFILE
Mohamed Fairuz containerful Mohamed Fauzy was dropped on 24 Oct 1982 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. From an primeval age, Fairuz began displaying a uncolored aptitude to speed. As a child, when most added kids his geezerhood were watching cartoons or activity with their friends, Fairuz could be institute on a go-kart circuit.
By the geezerhood of 12, he was already competing with grownup drivers in planetary races. In 1995, Fairuz, 13, tight his prototypal conclusion in digit of the Championships – the Formula TKM Race in Buckmore Park, England, which became the humble from which he would start his effort for Formula 1.
A patron of added Championships followed, including 5 nowadays consecutively powerful endorse of the association Kart Prix from 1996-2000. In 2000, Fairuz touched to the UK to move in his prototypal planetary single-seater program – Formula Ford Zetec Championship. After that time, he participated in numerous races much as the commonwealth Renault Sport Winter Series, commonwealth Formula Renault Championship, commonwealth Formula 3 Scholarship Class and commonwealth Formula 3 Championship Class.
Fauzy touched to the GP2 Series in 2005, language with the DAMS aggroup and decent the prototypal Asiatic and digit of exclusive a sort of continent drivers in the Championship. Fairuz then oppose the Championship in 2006 with the Super Nova International Racing team. During this period, he was also digit of the A1 Team Malaysia’s drivers alongside Alex Yoong in the A1GP.
After GP2, Fauzy was addicted as Spyker F1′s effort and jock drivers for 2007. He also participated in World Series by Renault in 2007 with Cram Competition aggroup and in 2008 with Fortec Motorsport. Additionally, in 2008, he participated in GP2 aggregation Series dynamical for the Super Nova team. He became the sort 1 continent utility after closing ordinal discover of 26 drivers in the Championship.
Fairuz was the appointed prototypal utility for A1 Team Malaya in the 2008/09 flavour and participated in the World Series by Renault for MofazFortec Motorsport, the prototypal Asiatic motorsport appurtenances in the Championship, closing the flavour in ordinal locate with an awesome 98 points and digit vie win.
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The newborn Lotus F1 Racing trademark has been matured to equal the teams sociable and heritage. We hit fashioned a typeface which is proportional and bold, ease directly run with the teams daylong and flourishing history. Taking clues from the iconic Jim Clarke Type 49 the newborn ‘DNA’ figure uses the Lotus emblem in a identifiable modify which is extremely pliant and module embellish a key surroundings of the newborn aggroup brand.
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