Its handling and performance attributes remained unchanged over its Lotus Racing sibling.
In 2010 Lotus has returned to F1 as Lotus Racing.
A new team in Malaysia was started called Lotus Racing.
After the 2010 season, Proton ended the license for Lotus Racing to use the Lotus name.
The Lotus Racing team announced they would be known as Team Lotus starting in 2011.
At the end of the 2010 season, Fauzy left Lotus Racing.
Lotus Racing announced on 9 December 2009 that Yoong would become the leader of their young driver development programme.
They failed to gain entry, but Gascoyne continued to work on the plans and got backing from the Malaysian government to form Lotus Racing.
Lotus Racing entry accepted on Sept 15.
The team was called Lotus Racing.