Lotus 107C
.jpg) Zanardi on a Lotus 107C at the 1994 British Grand Prix |
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 lotus
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| Designer: |
Chris Murphy Peter Wright |
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| Predecessor: | Lotus 107B | ||||||||
| Successor: | Lotus 109 | ||||||||
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| Chassis: | Monocoque made of fiber-reinforced plastic | ||||||||
| Wheelbase: | 2900 mm | ||||||||
| Weight: | 505 kg | ||||||||
| Tires: | Goodyear | ||||||||
| Petrol: | Mobile | ||||||||
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| Driver: |
 Pedro Lamy Alessandro Zanardi Johnny Herbert
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| First start: | 1994 Brazilian Grand Prix | ||||||||
| Last start: | Great Britain Grand Prix 1994 | ||||||||
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| World Cup points: | - | ||||||||
| Podiums: | - | ||||||||
| Leadership laps: | - | ||||||||
The Lotus 107C was a Formula 1 racing car from the British racing team Lotus , which was used in the 1994 Formula 1 season .
Technical specifications
Lack of financial means was one of the main reasons why the Lotus 109 , which was still under development , could not be used in racing at the beginning of the 1994 Formula 1 season. Therefore, the team leadership decided to contest the first world championship races with an almost unchanged Lotus 107B . The only change was the new engine from a different supplier. The suspension with double wishbones remained essentially the same.
The engine now provided by Mugen-Honda promised more power than that of Ford-Cosworth from the previous year, but the technical development of the promised new expansion stage was delayed, so that Lotus only had access to an outdated engine generation until the Italian Grand Prix . But even with the new expansion stage, there were no world championship points.
sponsor
The team's main sponsors were the US brewery Miller , the fashion company Tomy Hilfiger and the Japanese electronics and mechanical engineering group Hitachi . Other advertising media included the construction machinery manufacturer Komatsu , the adhesive manufacturer Loctite and the pharmaceutical company Shionogi .
Season course
Due to a lack of engine power, neither Pedro Lamy nor Johnny Herbert could achieve any points with a Lotus 107C. Lamy then had such a serious accident during test drives at Silverstone because of a broken rear wing that he suffered complicated fractures on both legs and one wrist. Alessandro Zanardi , who will replace him from the Spanish Grand Prix , was also unable to achieve any countable results with the Lotus 107C.
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P. Lamy
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11 | 10 | 8th | DNF | 11 | ||||||||||||||
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A. Zanardi
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11 | 9 | 15th | DNF | |||||||||||||||
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J. Herbert
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12 | 7th | 7th | 10 | DNF | ||||||||||||||
| Legend | ||
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| colour | abbreviation | meaning |
| gold | - | victory |
| silver | - | 2nd place |
| bronze | - | 3rd place |
| green | - | Placement in the points |
| blue | - | Classified outside the point ranks |
| violet | DNF | Race not finished (did not finish) |
| NC | not classified | |
| red | DNQ | did not qualify |
| DNPQ | failed in pre-qualification (did not pre-qualify) | |
| black | DSQ | disqualified |
| White | DNS | not at the start (did not start) |
| WD | withdrawn | |
| Light Blue | PO | only participated in the training (practiced only) |
| TD | Friday test driver | |
| without | DNP | did not participate in the training (did not practice) |
| INJ | injured or sick | |
| EX | excluded | |
| DNA | did not arrive | |
| C. | Race canceled | |
| no participation in the World Cup | ||
| other | P / bold | Pole position |
| SR / italic | Fastest race lap | |
| * | not at the finish, but counted due to the distance covered |
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| () | Streak results | |
| underlined | Leader in the overall standings | |
literature
- Anthony Pritchard: Lotus: The Competition Cars-All the Racing Type Numbers from 1947 to the Modern Era , Haynes Publishing Sparkford 2006, ISBN 978-1-84425-006-6 , pp. 202, 255.
