The tally of seven constructors’ and six drivers’ titles doesn’t reveal the innovation that Colin Chapman’s team brought to the sport.
Many great drivers raced Lotus machinery between its F1 arrival in 1958 and Team Lotus folding in 1994. That made producing this list tricky, but here’s our pick of the top 10 Lotus F1 drivers.
We’ve considered the amount of success the drivers scored with Lotus, the impact they had on the team and the circumstances of their time there. We didn’t include their achievements at other teams and have excluded the ‘Lotus’ era at the Enstone team, which later became Renault/Alpine.
If you’d also like to see which Lotus F1 cars we thought were best, take a look at our top 10 Lotus F1 cars list.
10. Elio de Angelis
Elio de Angelis, Lotus, 1983 San Marino GP
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Lotus years: 1980-85
Lotus races: 90
Lotus wins: 2
Lotus titles: 0
After a year with the struggling Shadow team, de Angelis joined Lotus for 1980 and…
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