** Lotus F1 Team, a British Formula One team that started competing in 2012 season

* Team Lotus, a Malaysian Formula One racing team that began racing in 2010 as Lotus Racing and became the Caterham F1 Team at the end of the 2011 season

They also sponsored the Minardi team for the 2002 F1 season, and the Rally Australia 2006 Championships.

Two wins in Mexico and Portugal gave Patrese his most competitive F1 season thus far and a respectable third place behind Championship contenders Mansell and Ayrton Senna.

While Williams continued to dominate F1 in 1993, Patrese found it difficult to live with his new team-mate Michael Schumacher and before the end of the season Benetton informed Patrese that he was " free to seek an alternate drive ".

In 2005 he returned to racing in the inaugural season of the Grand Prix Masters formula for retired F1 drivers.

During the year, they celebrated their 20th season in F1.

Although the F2 cars were good ( and Lauda's test-driving skills impressed March principal Robin Herd ), March's 1972 F1 season was catastrophic and Lauda, in despair and deep debt, briefly contemplated suicide but finally took out yet another bank loan to buy his way into the BRM team in 1973.

The 1975 F1 season started slowly for Lauda, but after nothing better than a fifth-place finish in the first four races he then won four out of the next five races in the new Ferrari 312T.

Unlike 1975 and despite tensions between Lauda and Di Montezemolos successor, Daniele Audetto, Lauda dominated the start of the 1976 F1 season, winning four of the first six races and finishing second in the other two.

Peugeot's F1 interests were sold to Asiatech at the end of the 2000 season.

Naturally, the mod simulates the 1966 F1 season, with the cars themselves being based on the late season grid to allow as many cars as possible to be nearer the three litre engine formula that the 1966 rules allowed, as opposed to the two litre engines that some teams ran early in the season.

Hill became the fourth driver in nine years to win the World Drivers ' Championship and not drive for Williams the following season following in the footsteps of Nelson Piquet ( WDC-drove for Lotus ), Nigel Mansell ( WDC-1993 competed in the US based Champ Car World Series instead of F1 ) and Alain Prost ( 1993 WDC-Retired ).

In January 2012, British Sky Broadcasting announced that they had signed Hill to join their F1 presentation team as a pundit for the 2012 Formula One season.

Branson and Tony Fernandes, owner of Air Asia and Lotus F1 Racing, had a bet for the 2010 F1 season where the team's boss should work on the winner's airline for a day dressed as a stewardess.

The Jaguar R5 being driven by Mark Webber in 2004 — the team's last season in F1

The end of the 2006 F1 season marked the end of Cosworth's remarkable 43 year association with the series, as no team opted to use Cosworth for 2007.

Montoya started his 2006 season learning that the 2005 F1 Champion Fernando Alonso had been contracted by McLaren-Mercedes for the 2007 season.

In December 2010 Group Lotus ( Proton ) announced the creation of " Lotus Renault GP ", the successor to the Renault F1 team, that contested the 2011 season having purchased a title sponsorship deal with the team with the option to buy shares in the future.

After the 1951 Formula One season the Alfa team withdrew from F1, causing the authorities to adopt the Formula Two regulations due to the lack of suitable F1 cars.

On average, for the first year ( F1 ) there are five classes each of which consists of 21 students.

The EA Sports F1 Series consists of five racing simulation games based on Formula One motorsport.

A second series of three more F1 races was held until 1976, but even higher demands by the F1 drivers and the FIA's CSI commission were too expensive or impossible to meet, so the 1976 race was deemed the last ever, even before it was held.

This series of conformational changes, channeled through the a and d subunits of the F0 subunit, drives a series of conformational changes in the stalk connecting the F0 to the F1 subunit.

" Phat Planet " was also used in the animated television series Beast Machines, the simulation racing games F1 2000 by EA Sports and Racedriver GRID by Codemasters.

At the same time, Clark was competing in the Australasia based Tasman series, run for older F1 cars, and was series champion in 1965, 1967 and 1968 driving for Lotus.

** IROC is an annual racing series held since the 1970s, ending in 2006, between drivers of Indy, CART, F1, World of Outlaws, and others with good enough credentials to participate.

The series has hosted its rounds since, with the exception of the 2004 closure, the circuit became the first to take place on an international level racetrack and the first of the three to take place on an F1 circuit.

He and Revson had built up a strong friendship off the back of their F1 camaraderie — they also competed together in the Can-Am series.

Hulme's debut season in the Cam-Am series heralded no points, but the year after, in the year of his F1 Championship win, he came home second in the series, behind team leader Bruce McLaren.

* Even though tobacco advertising in car racing was banned the Marlboro cigarette company is grandfathered in to sponsoring a car in the F1 series on the agreement that the name is not shown in places that banned it.

The period saw a generational change in weapons and equipment on issue to ADGs ; jungle green uniforms were replaced by the Disruptive Pattern Combat Uniform ( DPCU ), the L1A1 Self-Loading Rifle ( SLR ), M16 and F1 Sub-Machine Gun were replaced by the F88 Austeyr assault rifle and Vietnam-era radios were replaced with the Raven series of VHF and HF sets.

The Mirage F1 was selected over the F-16 / 79 ( an F-16A powered by the GE J79 turbojet series as opposed to the F-100, which had 25 % more power in afterburn ) while also acquiring the F-5 to complement the Mirage F1CJ / EJ in the process.

Even after his elevation to F1 status Peterson still drove in lower echelon racing series ( which was common at the time ), winning the 1971 European Formula Two Championship driving for March.

* There are other series, including F1 Championship ( discontinued after Sony acquired the exclusive license for the Formula One championship ), Superbike and others with a limited distribution such as AFL

The final two models in the series were the Hesketh 308 F1 car ( 190 ) driven by Englishman James Hunt issued in 1976, and the six wheeled Tyrrell Project 34 driven by Frenchman Patrick Depailler issued in Elf livery ( 161 ) in 1977 and First National City Travellers Checks livery ( 162 ) which was released in 1978.

Formula Three has traditionally been regarded as the first major stepping stone for F1 hopefuls — it is typically the first point in a driver's career at which most drivers in the series are aiming at professional careers in racing rather than being amateurs and enthusiasts.

The sport is lesser-known in the United States than the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series or their mostly-domestic open-wheel racing series, the IndyCar Series, but in terms of budgets and global TV audiences F1 is bigger than both combined.

In 2005, Bruni competed in the GP2 Series, a single-seater championship which is part of the F1 support package and which is intended to be its feeder series.

( Until 2009 only one other circuit, Detroit USA in 1982 – 88, featured a tunnel, but the F1 series now includes racing at the Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi, which presents a shorter tunnel at the exit of the pit lane.

Unser, Jr. also tested a Williams F1 car but never competed in the series.