Lotus stun rivals with 500th Grand Prix start

Valencia,Friday. The Lotus F1 team today proudly announced that Sunday’s race would be their 500^th Grand Prix start, stunning tail-end rivals,Virgin Racing and HRT, who thought it would just be their ninth.

The competition between the new teams is intense and… the battle for every finish around twentieth place is fiercely fought, so the news that Lotus are suddenly 491 races and an astonishing 79 wins ahead has been a big blow to the newbies.

Lotus, whose main connection to the great team of old is the fact that they are based in Norfolk and that Malaysian owner Tony Fernandes has a cloth cap which once belonged to Colin Chapman, insisted that the instant heritage claim was for real.

A team insider said; “There we were, in the factory, searching for some new bits not belonging to Force India to bolt on to the car, when a mechanic looking down the back of the sofa found 491 race starts and more trophies than you can wave an Air Asia baseball cap at, which was really pretty handy”.

Virgin and HRT were planning to protest but instead decided just to point and laugh every time they see the specially liveried ‘500^th start’ Lotus T127.

Tags: HRT, Lotus, Virgin Racing

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