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The Greatest Team Lotus F1 Drivers

By David Castro

Jim Clark drives the #1 Team Lotus 33 Climax during the British Grand Prix on 16 July 1966 at the Brands Hatch circuit in Fawkham, Great Britain. (Photo by Getty Images)
Jim Clark drives the #1 Team Lotus 33 Climax during the British Grand Prix on 16 July 1966 at the Brands Hatch circuit in Fawkham, Great Britain. (Photo by Getty Images) /
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SPA FRANCORCHAMPS – MAY 25: Lotus driver Ayrton Senna of Brazil in action during the F1 Belgian Grand Prix held on May 25, 1986 at the Spa-Francorchamps circuit in Belgium. (Photo by Michael King/Getty Images)
SPA FRANCORCHAMPS – MAY 25: Lotus driver Ayrton Senna of Brazil in action during the F1 Belgian Grand Prix held on May 25, 1986 at the Spa-Francorchamps circuit in Belgium. (Photo by Michael King/Getty Images) /

Ayrton Senna (1985-1987)

Senna never won a Drivers’ Championship with Team Lotus, if anything his tenure with them was foreshadowing his dominate era with McLaren. With that said, Senna shined with Team Lotus and won six-races in three seasons.

His highest finish in the Drivers’ Championship for Team Lotus was third in 1987. In 1988 he joined McLaren and promptly won his first title. Also, and this is irrelevant to his on-track performance but that John Player Special livery was iconic.

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