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    The Lotus 97T was a Formula One racing car designed by Gérard Ducarouge and built by Team Lotus for use in the 1985 Formula One World Championship. A...
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    present on the 97T), and an advanced (for the time) fuel consumption microcomputer. At the end of 1985 Elio de Angelis, who had driven for Lotus since 1980...
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    abandoned Lotus 97T (1985–1986): F1 Turbo Lotus 98T (1986–1987): F1 Turbo Lotus 99T (1987): F1 Turbo, last Lotus F1 winner Lotus 100T (1988): F1 Turbo Lotus Elan...
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    Mansell departed at the end of the year the team hired Ayrton Senna. The Lotus 97T scored victories with de Angelis at Imola and Senna in Portugal and Belgium...
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    Ayrton Senna (category Team Lotus Formula One drivers)
    electrical issues during the race weekend. Although the Renault-powered Lotus 97T was quick and nimble, particularly on tight and bumpy circuits and perhaps...
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  • championship. Ayrton Senna joined Team Lotus in 1985 and the combination of his talent and the fast, but fuel-inefficient Lotus 97T gained eight pole positions and...
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    Rosberg (Williams FW10) took the lead from pole-sitter Ayrton Senna (Lotus 97T) on lap eight, avoided the tire and brake problems that plagued the other...
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    MP4/4, Williams FW10, Williams FW11, Williams FW12, Lotus 95T, Lotus 97T, Lotus 98T, Lotus 99T and Lotus 100T. The Nissan GTP ZX-Turbo and Nissan NPT-90 competed...
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    helped to re-establish Lotus as consistent front-runners, and would be succeeded for 1985 by a further development, the Lotus 97T. Mansell's 95T was auctioned...
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  • Formula One constructor Team Lotus between 1958 and 1994. The second table includes results from privately owned Lotus cars in World Championship Grands...
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  • motor racing career of Ayrton Senna. The update also includes the iconic Lotus 97T, which Senna drove during the 1985 Formula One season. The game has 30...
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    Land Rover 110 Land Rover Freelander Land Rover Range Rover '94 Lexus IS Lotus 97T Matra Simca Bagheera Mazda RX 7 Mercedes-Benz SSK Mercedes-Benz 300 SL...
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  • Ayrton Senna's Lotus 98T at the 1986 British Grand Prix. Elio de Angelis driving a Lotus97T at the 1985 German GP 1985 Ayrton Senna Lotus 97T at the Renault...
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    The Lotus T125, also known as the Lotus Exos, is a single seater open-wheel sports car produced by Lotus Cars. Lotus produced 25 units. The T125 appeared...
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    earned two race wins and five pole positions for Lotus, as well as ten podium finishes (four for the Lotus 97T, four for the Ligier JS25 and two for the Renault...
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    pole position; results in italics indicate fastest lap) Williams FW11 Lotus 97T F1, STATS. "McLaren - Models • STATS F1". statsf1.com. Retrieved 28 November...
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    kilometres. The race was won by Brazilian driver Ayrton Senna driving a Lotus 97T. It was Senna's second World Championship victory and the first of five...
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    Elio de Angelis (category Team Lotus Formula One drivers)
    participated in Formula One between 1979 and 1986, racing for the Shadow, Lotus and Brabham teams. He was killed in an accident while testing the Brabham...
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    over the Brazilian duo Nelson Piquet (Brabham BT54) and Ayrton Senna (Lotus 97T). It was the debut race for the American owned Haas Lola team with their...
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    1984 Monaco Grand Prix (contemporary teammate Stefan Johansson), the Lotus 97T in which he took his first victory at the 1985 Portuguese Grand Prix (Thierry...
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    Autocourse picked the FW10 as the third-best car of 1985, behind the Lotus 97T and the McLaren MP4/2B, and the chassis also won Autosport magazine's...
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    only minutes left before the end of qualifying in his black and gold Lotus 97T, powered by a special Renault qualifying engine rumored to be putting...
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    Motorsport Festival. Lotus 99T Honda - The 1987 Lotus that Ayrton Senna drove at the 1987 Australian Grand Prix, which joined the Lotus 97T at the Adelaide...
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    Lotus 66 is a track day car produced by Lotus Cars. The car is based on three drawings for a Can-Am racing car drawn up by Geoff Ferris of Team Lotus...
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    The Lotus Etna is a one-off concept car designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro, who also designed the Lotus Esprit. It premiered at the 1984 British International...
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  • Queerbox (category Lotus Cars)
    'Queerbox' was the nickname for an early sequential manual transaxle used by Lotus racing cars of the late-1950s and early-1960s, and was very similar in design...
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  • Gérard Ducarouge (category Lotus Cars)
    win in a Ducarouge Lotus 97T. This was to be the first of seven and culminated in the 1987 victory in Detroit. His 1987 car, the Lotus 99T was the first...
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    April 2004, 10 years after Ayrton Senna's death, Berger drove the JPS Lotus Renault 97T, which Senna had used in the 1985 championship, for three laps at...
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    relatively little driver switches, biggest news was Ayrton Senna's promotion to Lotus. He would replace Nigel Mansell who was signed by Williams. Brabham hired...
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