Simple, nostalgia isn't always a good thing, especially if it is just nostalgia for the sake of it. He would earn his first pole position and his first win, but the circumstances was what made that historic victory even more significant.ĭuring a very wet race, the soon to be three-time world champion would lap every single one of his challengers except for one and he finished more than a full minute ahead of second-place finisher Michele Alboreto.īruno Senna will now have the opportunity to sometimes run in a black-and-gold Lotus Renault in Friday practice.įurther, he has a chance of getting on the grid if Vitaly Petrov underperforms or, God forbid, either of the lead drivers can't race for any reason, such as injury.īut honestly, why did I go off on that sort of diatribe when talking about the 2011 Lotus Renault? It was in a Lotus at the 1985 Portuguese Grand Prix, where the world first saw how dominant Ayrton would be. Seven years later, a then-young Ayrton Senna had never won a Formula 1 race. That image is so imprinted in the memories of Formula 1 fans that is almost too easy to try and use that for a team's own benefit. With Mario Andretti at the wheel, that Lotus, albeit with a Cosworth engine, took the only American to the Formula One world drivers championship.īut most importantly, that happened in a car that was black and gold.

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