{"id":2414,"date":"2010-02-12T19:39:28","date_gmt":"2010-02-13T00:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=2414"},"modified":"2010-02-13T08:49:10","modified_gmt":"2010-02-13T13:49:10","slug":"lotus-racing-unveils-lotus-cosworth-t127","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/lotus-racing-unveils-lotus-cosworth-t127\/","title":{"rendered":"Lotus Racing unveils Lotus Cosworth T127"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Lotus Racing today unveiled its 2010 challenger, the Lotus Cosworth T127, at a glittering event in London\u2019s Royal Horticultural Hall.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left\" style=\"margin: 2px; border: black 2px solid;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/posts-f1\/Lotus-F1-launch-2010\/thumbs\/thumbs_Lotus_9702.jpg\" alt=\"Lotus T127 Launch Royal Horticultural Hall\" \/>London, 12th February 2010. Team Principal Tony Fernandes was joined on stage by Chief Technical Officer Mike Gascoyne and drivers Jarno Trulli, Heikki Kovalainen and Fairuz Fauzy to take the wraps off the car in front of a 500 strong live audience.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As the lights came up the car\u2019s stunning green and yellow livery was seen for the first time, striking an emotional chord with both young and old alike and evoking memories of some of motor racing\u2019s most iconic moments in an entirely contemporary fashion.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Tony Fernandes<\/em><\/strong> gave his thoughts on the astonishing achievement the Lotus Racing team has accomplished in launching the car just five short months since the team was granted its entry to the FIA Formula One World Championships, saying: \u201cI am extremely proud to be here today and to be able to show the world the fruits of the team\u2019s hard work over the last five months. It\u2019s humbling for me and my fellow shareholders, Kamarudin Meranun and SM Nasarudin to see how a team that five months ago didn\u2019t even exist is now a thriving workforce, full of enthusiasm and passion for Lotus Racing and the challenges ahead and capable of producing such a beautiful machine in such a short time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow we\u2019ve achieved two major milestones; confirming our entry and unveiling our car, but now the real work starts. Next we move on to testing and the season ahead and I\u2019m confident that the team will exceed expectations wherever we go, and will do so on a wave of support around the world that has been growing daily since we first unleashed Lotus Racing back in September \u201909.\u201d<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n<p><strong><em>Mike Gascoyne<\/em><\/strong> added his thoughts, saying \u201cThe last few months have been some of the most challenging of my career, but it\u2019s been a challenge the whole team and I have thrived on since we first started work on the car up in Norfolk. I\u2019m delighted that we\u2019ve reached this point, and now we have a beautiful car that gives us a great base to work from for the season ahead and a fighting chance of going racing in the right way, with a winning mentality. The hard part starts now, and I know everyone in the team and I are up for whatever lies ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Lotus Racing T127 is powered by Cosworth and will use an Xtrac gearbox and, in line with all 2010 teams, will be running on Bridgestone tyres.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">Source Lotus Racing<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lotus Racing today unveiled its 2010 challenger, the Lotus Cosworth T127, at a glittering event in London\u2019s Royal Horticultural Hall. \u00a0 London, 12th February 2010. Team Principal Tony Fernandes was joined on stage by Chief Technical Officer Mike Gascoyne and drivers Jarno Trulli, Heikki Kovalainen and Fairuz Fauzy to take the wraps off the car &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3,604],"tags":[353,5262,568,517,394,5332,306,709,305,62],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2414"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2414"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2419,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2414\/revisions\/2419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}