The Lotus F1 Team will be racing next season with Mercedes engines, switching over from Renault. Under the terms of the agreement, Enstone-based Lotus will be supplied with Mercedes-Benz Power Units by Mercedes AMG High Performance Powertrains (HPP) based in Brixworth, UK.
The Mercedes-Benz Power Units have been dominant this year, powering the Silver Arrows to the constructors’ title with three races to go. Mercedes uses Petronas lubricants, which means that Lotus’ partnership with French oil company Total will end as well.
However, Lotus will continue to design and manufacture its own transmission at Enstone where work is already underway on the team’s 2015 challenger, the E23 Hybrid.
“We are pleased to have been chosen by Mercedes AMG HPP in a significant long term deal. We intend to return to the front of the field with the goals of winning Grands Prix and being a strong championship contender once more and we see this new agreement as one step towards this aim,” said team CEO Matthew Carter.
“The Mercedes-Benz Power Unit has shown good performance on track and it is our goal to marry this motive force to our chassis expertise. It is our desire that the E23 Hybrid, powered by Mercedes-Benz, heralds a new era of success for Enstone,” he added.
As Lotus joins Merc’s customer list next year, McLaren will be leaving the three-pointed star to rekindle a relationship with Honda. McLaren-Honda – sounds good, doesn’t it?
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Bodoh.
You are just joking right? Why not suggest a Perdana V6 engine with twin turbo?
I wish that E23 power train can be fitted to my daughter Iriz since its same 1.6..so she’ll shut up, coz she love speeding and same time complain about fuel price hikes
The Merc engine has proven to be a beast this year. Amazing power and performance from a team used to be an underdog in F1.
Honda makes great engines. Let’s hope theirs is good enough to go head to head with Merc.
However, I’m really looking forward to BMW’s return.
next year lotus will win F1..fuuuu~~
Although wont guarentee success, any engine is better than that rotten Renault unit
Thy did admit however that there is a fundamental flaw to their chassis design as well…
Hopefully it will spur them on for next season… They have the potential, last season they wer awesome challenging the redbulls…. Hopefully glory days r not far off…
I just hope that FIA will do something about the utter ugliness of the current F1 cars (such as restricting the number of aero appendages and banning those fugly nose protursions altogether). I mean the cars sounds are already like a bunch of lawn mowers, at least good looking car could compensate for that. Nothing beats the cleanliness & the purity of the shape of the 1980s & 1990s F1 cars..
Kiasu…damn kiasu~wahahahaha
Hopefully with the AMG Merc Petronas engines, Lotus will have more success next year. If they don’t, they cannot blame the engines, like this year, on the Renault engines.
I am not so sure Honda-McLaren can win many podiums during the first year, but by the 2nd or 3rd year they could go for the constructor’s or driver’s titles.