2011 new livery For Lotus Renault GP

2011 new livery For Lotus Renault GP

The re-named Lotus Renault GP aggregation has apparent its accouter for the 2011 season, announcement the new paintjob on the team’s 2010 challenger. Their new car, the R31, will be launched in Valencia on January 31st.

And as the war of words amid the newly-named band and Tony Fernandes’ Aggregation Lotus continues Clive Chapman – son of Lotus architect Colin – advised in to the argument today by advertence that “Lotus antagonism cars accept atramentous and gold for far best than they’ve been blooming and yellow.”

Vitaly Petrov, who afresh active a arrangement addendum with the team, was present for the actualization at the Autosport Show in Birmingham’s National Exhibition Centre. Also present was Jean Alesi, who collection for the Enstone-based aggregation amid 1996 and 1997 if they ran as Benetton and is now a Lotus ambassador, and accepted aggregation arch Eric Boullier.

2011 new livery For Lotus Renault GP

As appropriate by promo mock-ups appear endure ages the car will run in the acclaimed atramentous and gold accouter fabricated acclaimed by Aggregation Lotus in the seventies and eighties. Group Lotus – the Malaysian-based aggregation who own the rights to Lotus’ alley car ancestry – afresh invested heavily in the Renault aggregation and became name sponsors of the 2005-2006 apple champions. As such they accept adopted to run a accouter from Colin Chapman’s team’s past.

However there is some altercation over the use of these colours. The accouter will anon admonish anyone who remembers the archetypal JPS Lotus cars of the cigarette brand, which charcoal on auction today. Aggregation Lotus (henceforth to be accepted as Blooming Lotus) bang-up Tony Fernandes appropriate that he’d been warned off the atramentous and gold abstraction for his team’s acrylic arrangement for this actual reason, with associates of the FIA suggesting that such a accouter could be advised brainy tobacco commercial agnate to Ferrari’s contempo use of barcodes and white squares to allegedly continuing commercial Marlboro.

So what do you anticipate of Lotus Renault GP’s new livery? A acceptable searching re-imagining of an iconic accouter or a alveolate action that ability admonish humans of a fag brand? And what about Clive Chapman’s comments? Accept your say in the comments below.

Thanks to Octane Photos for all shots from the Lotus Renault GP accouter launch.

2011 new livery For Lotus Renault GP