Filed under: Motorsports, Lotus, Renault
What’s in a name? More than you might think, particularly in Formula One where two teams have been fighting for use of the Lotus moniker for a couple of years now.
The battle, as you may recall, involves two outfits – neither of them directly owned by Lotus. One is based in [...]
Filed under: Motorsports, Lotus, Renault
What’s in a name? More than you might think, particularly in Formula One where two teams have been fighting for use of the Lotus moniker for a couple of years now.
The battle, as you may recall, involves two outfits – neither of them directly owned by Lotus. One is based in [...]
Filed under: Motorsports
Getting ahead as an F1 team is a costly affair. There’s an endless stream of expenses, but even all the cash in the world doesn’t buy experience and expertise.
Virgin initially tried keeping costs down to a minimum with its new F1 team last year. The team skipped wind-tunnel testing in favor of designing [...]
Filed under: Motorsports, Hirings/Firings/Layoffs
It’s safe to say that Virgin Racing hasn’t been a huge success so far. One of three new teams that joined the F1 grid last season, Virgin has largely been performing better than perennial back-markers HRT, but has failed to keep pace with Lotus, which is itself still far from competing with [...]
Filed under: Motorsports, Racing
2011 Marussia Virgin Racing MVR-02 – Click above for high-res image gallery
Last year, Virgin Racing popped its cherry with the VR-01 that led the team through a lackluster first season, finishing the 2010 Formula One World Championship dead last. The team failed to start one of its cars at two grands prix, [...]
