DuPont Refinish has joined Lotus Racing’s growing list of backers, jumping on board as an Official Technical Supplier to the Malaysian owned team with immediate effect. DuPont Refinish is the corporate aftermarket paint brand of DuPont, the American chemical giant that developed materials such as Nylon, Kevlar, Lycra, Teflon and Nomex, among other household names.
The agreement, signed at the German GP last weekend, sees the paint manufacturer provide full technical support to Lotus Racing. In return, DuPont Refinish’s liquid logo will appear on the team’s T127 race cars, transporter trucks, motorhome and garage.
The main criteria for paint in F1 are low weight, combined with optimum thickness, thermal stability, resistance to mechanical stresses such as stone chips and debris, and colour brilliance to ensure the cars look their best for our TV sets and live spectators.
The T127s and the trucks that transport them have all been painted in the famous green and yellow livery with the highly productive DuPont Refinish paint systems. The fast drying properties of the paint is well suited to the sport, where it is crucial to get the cars back on track as quickly as possible after body damage.
more sponsers,the better….more budget for next year’s car
Now what’d been said and promised by Fernandes becoming more and more visible!
Seems like the Lotus brand itself is emotionally attractive.
Now just keep on working harder Mr A Asia…
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Your statement just proved to everyone here the size of your brain. Tinier than an ants!
so u all support lotus ? what a bunch of LOSER !
I’m proven right everytime in every F1 weekend. lotus finishing last of dnf. kakakak
This one also. Have even tinier brains than ants.
Hallo Bro, Lotus F1 Racing able to attract more investments in this racing team. That is good news. Not all prospects wants to invest in uncertain profit. That means more budget for them. Nowadays, Sports is not just sports, it is business.
Just look at EPL, billions from just investments of ads.
WTH.. easier to talk than make it done perfectly.. so why dont you go apply for LOTUS racing engineer.. owh if you don’t have any degree in engineering just apply it.. but only mechanical engineering and not business engineering.. what a looser..
your statement do makes you an idiot.
instead of condemn… what is your brilliant idea to improve Lotus?
Any suggestion?
if you do not have any… then, you are just mere talker…
sweet talk only, incapable of giving good ideas ad execution…
Some companies like to sponsor smaller teams because they
1) are not so cocky
2) will listen to sponsor
3) are cheap
4) are generally running slower which means your logo can be seen better
slower cars get less airtime
Not always. Also if you’re trackside…..
‘Slower cars less airtime’ ??? haha what a joke mind you Lotus is ‘slower’ for just couple of seconds from Ferari for god sakes plus have you ever see F1 in TV? please count how many times Ferari, McLaren and Red Bull is appearing in TV, lesser coz they faster??
paint my car too!!
This is good news for the team. So i guess Dupont sees the potential in the Lotus team for next year and their branding. Dupont refinish paints are very strong in Europe especially.
Hmm dont see much a paint company can do for an F1 team. Hopefully some cash injection from this sponsorship will help the team to develop their car further.
Btw there too many anti Lotus(aka the anti BN) ppl in paultan. Sigh, they just dont learnt they cant mix sports and politics…….
Well, ICI paint used to be a major sponsor in F1 so there is a valid reason for DuPont to get involve as well. Futhermore, they can help develop some special paint which might be lighter, less friction or whatever that will definitely benefit an F1 team and consumer.
Oh yeah, ICI…the garishly yellow colour Williams from the 1980s!
A strong, lightweight, aerodynamically smooth paint would benefit any race team.
Haha.
Take that basher.Sponsors keep coming in.Don’t expect Lotus to bail any soon.
In the end it is still a worthworthy project.
Go Lotus.
Perhaps Dupont will develope a ‘slippery paint’ to improve aerodynamics by reducing air resistance?
i was hoping lotus will secure a technical supplier in the engine area, like toyota. since they already using camry engines in the lotus cars, and proton is talking to perodua for a merger, whlist toyota have all the experience during their short run in F1, maybe that isnt a bad idea to pursuit before the Hispanic team seal the deal. overall cosworth engines are just not doing justices to the new comers as oppose to force india who is using mercedes engines and toro rosso who is using ferrari engine. if budget is the constrain, then look at how Brawn GP did it with honda last year. being small is good, lotus dont need to deal with manufacturer giants, but without a good engine, its hard to move beyond where there are now. im sure tony would have thought about this, but thing might be much more complicated than we can see, but still, im quite sure the current toyota ceo (grandson of the founder) who launch the lexus LF and toyota FT-86, is not interested in racing toyota banners in F1 holygrail.
Now Dupont have to ensure their paint can make lotus gain 100hp..lols..
The news i heard is true than, Satria Neo R3 Lotus Racing is also painted using DuPont paint, primer & lacquer.
Probably down to coincidence rather than anything else
The colour code & make supply was provided by F1 Lotus Racing
I checked. The colour was just factory spec Lotus Racing Green. May or may have not been Du Pont but normal paint supplier. R3 does not need to source it from Lotus Racing. Furthermore while Lotus Racing requires special specifications for their race car, a road car only requires standard paints. Nothing bespoke for the Satria Neo LR Edition
Are u sure DuPont is just supplying paint to them? DuPont is the main player in producing high quality, high strength carbon reinforced polymer matrix composites. Chances are they even produce the whole car chassis/body…and even their suspension parts.
the main component in making F1 driver cockpit shell is from kevlar, which is material from dupont, material which is strong enough to protect the driver during crashes.
your mum’s non-stick pan material is also from dupont, namely teflon, slippery….
what i know until today is that, still is, lotus from UK & Malaysia is still using dupont paint for their cars….
from putty, primer, basecoat, until clearcoat