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KV Racing Technology - Lotus drivers Takuma Sato and E.J. Viso were sixth and 15th respectively on the final speed charts following the conclusion of the IZOD IndyCar Series Open Test, March 14-15, at Barber Motorsports Park in Birmingham, Alabama. Sato, driving the No. 5 KV Racing Technology – Lotus Honda/Dallara/Firestone car, turned a quick time of 72.4742 seconds (114.248 mph) on the picturesque 2.3-mile, 17-turn permanent road circuit in today’s second practice session. Viso, behind the wheel of the No. 8 PDVSA – KV Racing Technology – Lotus Honda/Dallara/Firestone entry, recorded his fast lap of 73.0170 seconds (113.398 mph) yesterday afternoon. “…
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KV Racing Technology – Lotus and drivers Takuma Sato and E. J. Viso had a successful first test in preparation for the 2011 IZOD IndyCar Series season today at Barber Motorsports Park in Birmingham, Alabama. Today’s test was a “shakedown” with both drivers running approximately 100 miles in an effort to “knock some of the rust off” prior to the IZOD IndyCar Series Open Test on March 14-15, also at Barber. “KV Racing Technology - Lotus had a successful test and I am extremely pleased with the job Team Manager Tom Wurtz and his entire staff did today,” said KVRT - Lotus General Manager Mark Johnson. “This was our first pre-season test and first with Tom…
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The KV Racing Technology (KVRT) Lotus Team announces Sato and Viso to contest 2011 IZOD IndyCar Series Season. Lotus’ IndyCar team KVRT Lotus is delighted to confirm that Takuma Sato and E J Viso will fly the green and yellow flag in the 2011 IZOD IndyCar Series. Lotus Director of Motorsport Claudio Berro said: “For us last year was all about learning, this year we would really like to achieve some podium finishes – we want to start to contest with some of the front runners. “What we’re doing with IndyCar is very similar to the way we tackle all our race involvement, first we test the water with an established team, we then explore ways in which to ex…
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KV Racing Technology co-owners Kevin Kalkhoven and Jimmy Vasser announced today that Takuma Sato and E. J. Viso will contest the 2011 IZOD IndyCar Series season for the KV Racing Technology – Lotus team. “We are very excited to have Taku and E. J. back with us for 2011," said Vasser. "The fact that both drivers are returning for their second year with the team gives us continuity in the cockpit. I believe that having a second season with the same driver and engineer combinations will be beneficial to our team and will produce some very positive results.” Sato, 34, known as “Taku”, will pilot the #5 KV Racing Technology – Lotus Honda/Dallara/Firestone entry. A …
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Ex-Formula One test driver James Rossiter has inked a contract to become a test and development driver for Lotus Motorsport in a deal that could lead to a race seat in the Izod IndyCar Series. Rossiter, who tested for the BAR-Honda and Super Aguri F1 teams in 2005-08, has been part of Lotus's sports-car GT racing operation since September and has contested two races in an Evora GT car. The relationship was cemented with a test contract just before Christmas and could encompass selected race appearances with Lotus's IndyCar partner, KV Racing Technology. Lotus Motorsport director Claudio Berro said he hopes Rossiter, a race winner in the American Le Mans …
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Lotus supplies engines and aero body kits for the 2012 IZOD IndyCar Series In a five year deal starting in 2012, Lotus, the UK based iconic sports and racecar manufacturer, will supply in-house engines and aero body kits for the IZOD IndyCar Series. Lotus will also create a motorsport facility in Indianapolis giving the company a base in the thick of the action for this exciting and adrenalin filled race series as well as being close to IndyCar engine and aero body kit customers. Dany Bahar, CEO of Group Lotus said: Lotus is unique in the automotive world, no other car company has been more successful in such a wide variety of motorsports discipline, whether i…
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Lotus Cars of England has become the third engine manufacturer for the 2012 IZOD IndyCar Series season, SI.com has learned. An agreement between Lotus and IndyCar was signed Tuesday night, barely making the November 16 deadline the series had set for engine manufacturers to announce their intentions to participate in 2012, when IndyCar adopts the 2.6-liter, turbocharged engine formula. This comes on the heels of last Friday's announcement in Indianapolis that Chevrolet would return to the series for the first time since 2005. Both engine manufacturers will join Honda Performance Development in the series. The announcement will be made at 5 p.m. Thursday at…
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Lotus Motorsport will expand its IndyCar partnership with KV Racing in 2011 and has confirmed that it will design bodywork for the new-for-2012 next generation IndyCar Series rules. The company, which in its original incarnation won the 1965 Indianapolis 500, returned to American motorsport in a sponsorship and technical support deal with KV this season. The tie-up saw Takuma Sato running a classic green Lotus livery on his Dallara IndyCar for his rookie season. Lotus says it will stick with KV through 2011, and that next year it will back at least two of the team's cars. "The 2011 IndyCar season will see Lotus continue to work with KV Racing Technology p…
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IZOD IndyCar Series rookie Takuma Sato was cruelly denied the strong result he deserved in the 2010 finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway this weekend, after late-race contact dropped the KV Racing Technology star down the order to an unrepresentative 18th-position finish. Having continued his impressive learning curve across the Pond by qualifying an impressive ninth – the best-placed of the KVRT trio – Sato ran inside the top ten along with oval-racing veterans Dan Wheldon, Marco Andretti, Ed Carpenter and Vitor Meira in the early stages of the 200-lap Cafes do Brasil Indy 300, before a three-way battle over the final 20 laps sadly ended in tears, as the #5 Lotus-KVRT …
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Takuma Sato is catching onto oval racing rather quickly with his No. 5 Lotus-KV Racing Technology Honda/Dallara/Firestone entry with another top-ten qualifying effort Friday in preparations for Saturday’s Cafes do Brasil Indy 300 at Homestead Miami Speedway. Sato, who had never competed at an oval track before May, recorded his sixth appearance in the top-11 for oval qualifications in 2010 with a two-lap average speed of 211.355 miles per hour. Sato’s best oval qualifying run was seventh at Iowa this year. After making an appearance for Lotus in this year’s Paris Auto Show, Sato flew across the Atlantic Ocean all day Thursday to prepare for his Homestead debut. …
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Takuma Sato will hope to end his maiden IndyCar Series season a high this weekend at Homestead Miami Speedway. Taku goes into the Cafes do Brasil Indy 300 on the back of an impressive performance on home soil at Twin Ring Motegi at the wheel of the #5 Lotus-KV Racing Technology entry, where he was the highest placed Japanese driver in twelfth place. The former F1 racer has shown his potential on ovals this season after running near the front at Indianapolis, Iowa and Chicagoland “We had a very successful weekend in Japan though it started with some difficulty,” Taku said. “The result doesn't explain everything but my team worked extremely well together. “…
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Takuma Sato was treated like a rock star this weekend at Twin Ring Motegi, and the Japanese driving star had the enthusiastic crowd on its feet Sunday in the Indy Japan 300, the 16th round of the 17-race IZOD IndyCar Series. Sato, making his Motegi debut in the No. 5 Lotus — KV Racing Technology Honda/Dallara/Firestone car, fought off amazing crowds in the paddock area and battled his way on the track to finish 12th at the fast 1.5-mile oval north of Tokyo. Sato’s 12th place finish paced the three-driver KV Racing Technology lineup with E.J. Viso taking 15th and Mario Moraes 24th. Moraes’ car made contact with the Turn Two wall on lap 66. Moraes was transported …
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KV Racing Technology put in a sensational team effort at Twin Ring Motegi Saturday and scored two Top Ten positions in qualifications with E.J. Viso and Japanese star Takuma Sato starting eighth and tenth for Sunday’s Indy Japan 300. Viso, driving the No. 8 PDVSA — KV Racing Technology Honda/Dallara/Firestone car, recorded his best oval qualifying performance of the year with a fourth row starting spot in the 300-mile event on the fast 1.5-mile oval track north of Tokyo. The 25-year-old Venezuelan recorded a two-lap average of 199.487 miles per hour to lead the three-car KVRT contingent in the next to last round of the 17-race IZOD IndyCar Series. …
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Takuma Sato has been keeping a pace similar to his 230-mile per hour IndyCar for the past two weeks in Japan. Sato, the seven-year Formula One veteran, will make his first Japanese racing performance in three years this Sunday in the Indy Japan 300 at the fast Twin Ring Motegi 1.5-mile oval. But the 33-year-old Tokyo native has been in high demand off the track with a variety of appearances in his native country. Taku's last competition in Japan was at Fuji Speedway on September 30, 2007, so his enthusiastic fans and sponsors are anxious to see him behind the wheel of the #5 Lotus—KV Racing Technology Honda/Dallara/Firestone entry. From his Denver ho…
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Japanese racing star Takuma Sato returns to his native Japan on Sept. 18-19 to race in the highly–competitive IZOD IndyCar Series at the Twin Ring Motegi 1.5-mile oval track in the Indy Japan 300. Sato, a seven-year Formula One veteran, will make his IndyCar debut at the Motegi oval circuit in front of a large contingent of enthusiastic fans when he drives the No. 5 Lotus—KV Racing Technology Honda/Dallara/Firestone entry. It will be Sato’s first competition in his homeland since the 2007 Japanese Formula One Grand Prix at Fuji. Sato (left) competed at six F-1 events in Japan (2002-2007). Sato, who’ll be joined by Mario Moraes and E.J. Viso in th…
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