where the Indy car lap record is 241 mph set by Gil de Ferran in 2000. So we had hope. Unlike the 2006 Renault F1 car we drove a couple weeks before, the Lotus Type 56 is remarkably simple.

In January 2011 he joined Group Lotus as a brand ambassador and development consultant on the F1 customer race car, the T125. Although never straying far from the race track, the Indy 500 and oval ...