Lotus

Lotus is a team that have competed in the Red Bull Racing World Championship for the past five seasons. After being involved with the Renault team between WC#11 and WC#15, the team took over the operations of the team for F1WC Season 16 with the onset of GP-2012 regulations. With Renault finishing their WC campaign with 3rd in the teams championship and having signed a fast rookie in Jacob Whittle alongside Daniel Jones starting his 4th season, it was expected that Lotus would continue that form into the new team, which it did. Jones won 5 of the last 7 races in the season to finish 4th in the championship, only 8 points behind 3rd. Whittle managed to be one of the three drivers that broke the long-lasting trend in the WC that rookies can't win in the series after winning at Barcelona.

Jones and Whittle stayed with the team for all 3 seasons with the GP-2012 regulations, WC#17 saw a drop in performance for the team, with Jones and Whittle winning one race apiece, and finishing 4th in the teams championship, having been beaten by Marussia at the last race. While Jones was the only one of the two that won a race in WC#18 (winning two races), their overall results improved and they finished 2nd in the teams championship

With the series moving to GP2 regulations for WC#19, Lotus signed two new drivers for the team as both Jones and Whittle had moved to the short-lived Badger Racing Team outfit; Lotus signed Bruce Tao and Kev Chan to drive, only the fourth all-rookie team in the past six seasons, and the only one in WC#19. While Chan was consistently at the back end of the points for most of the season, Tao was closer to the front all season, winning 3 races. In the end Lotus finished 4th in the championship. For WC#20 Chan improved on his WC#19 results, winning 2 races, while Tao also won two races, the team improved to 2nd in the teams championship, albeit a distant second to Renault, the team Lotus took over 5 seasons previously which had been revived with the GP2 regulations.