Lotus is embroiled in a legal battle with former reserve driver Charles Pic that could result in its cars being unable to leave Spa following Sunday's Formula 1 Belgian Grand Prix.Former Marussia and Caterham driver Pic was signed early last year by Lotus as back up to regulars Romain Grosjean...

The loss of key technical staff in 2013 was the main reason why Lotus's '14 Formula 1 campaign was so bad, believes trackside operations chief Alan Permane.Technical director James Allison left Lotus for Ferrari before last season, with head of aerodynamics Dirk de Beer following him and other staff also...

Romain Grosjean says the experimental nose run on his Lotus Formula 1 car produced "positive" results, even though he was slowest in first free practice for the U.S. Grand Prix.Lotus tried running with a 2015-specification short nose on Grosjean's E22 at Circuit of The Americas, in place of the usual...

Lotus's technical director Nick Chester says the team's 2015 Formula One car will feature significant changes compared to the current E22, which has underwhelmed and left the team struggling for points in 2014.Lotus have endured reliability and performance issues with the Renault-powered E22, and the Enstone-based squad have only broken...

Last year Lotus scored a race victory, 13 further podiums and fourth place in the championship. Thirteen rounds into the 2014 season and they have just eight points on the board. That's the bad news.The good news, according to Chairman Gerard Lopez, is that they are confident of fixing things...

Romain Grosjean hopes the Lotus Formula 1 team can mimic 2009 world champion team Brawn GP and revive its flagging fortunes next season.Lotus has slumped from frontrunner to also-ran in this campaign, having fought for third with Ferrari in last year's constructors' title race. Brawn claimed the drivers' and constructors'...

Formula1.com - Latest NewsLotus technical director Nick Chester says the team are hoping a raft of upgrades to the E22 will significantly boost performance at Hockenheim next weekend.Romain Grosjean's eighth-place finishes in Barcelona and Monaco remain the only occasions when the team have scored points so far this seasonRead more...

Formula1.com - Latest NewsLotus's Pastor Maldonado has been excluded from the results of qualifying in Great Britain after his car was found to be carrying an insufficient amount of fuel to provide the mandatory post-session sample.The Venezuelan lapped in 1m 44.018s in Q2 - good enough for 15th place -...

Formula1.com - Latest NewsLotus’s Romain Grosjean will start Sunday’s Formula 1 Grosser Preis von Osterreich 2014 from the pit lane after the team elected to make changes to his car under parc ferme conditions ahead of the race. Grosjean had qualified 16th in Spielberg.The gearbox on the Frenchman’s E22 machine...

Romain Grosjean feels a lack of preparation and time between races are the reason for the Lotus Formula 1 team's struggles to get its car's mechanical setup right.Grosjean has scored points in each of the last two races, held on very different types of circuit, but Lotus struggled for speed...