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F1 Driver Jarno Trulli Sits In His First Lotus

F1 driver Jarno Trulli straight from being

announced as driver for Lotus F1 Racing in Malaysia made the trip to the home of

Lotus at Hethel in England, visiting where Lotus history was made.

It was an exciting day, with Jarno enjoying a visit to the

production facilities, meeting Lotus staff and driving the new Lotus Evora – the

first Lotus he has ever driven!

 

Jarno was also given a special tour of the Classic Team

Lotus workshops by Clive Chapman, son of Lotus founder Colin Chapman. During the

visit to Classic Team Lotus Jarno viewed some of the most successful and iconic

F1 racing cars of all time. The tour was steeped in Lotus heritage and included

some of the F1 cars that helped Lotus to achieve 79 GP wins, seven constructor's

titles and 6 drivers' championships, including, Emerson Fittipaldi's Type 72,

Graham Hill's Type 49 and Jim Clark's Type 25.

Dany Bahar, CEO of Group Lotus plc said, "The family gets

bigger with the arrival of Jarno. It was very special to host Jarno at Group

Lotus, he is an exceptional driving talent and we wish him and Lotus F1 Racing

every success for the 2010 F1 season."

Dany Bahar continued, "We take great pride in the sports

cars that we produce at Hethel and Jarno's visit provided a great opportunity to

show off the multi-award winning cars that we produce and the advanced niche

production facilities at Hethel."

Jarno had a fantastic time driving the Lotus Evora and

visiting the home of the iconic Lotus marque, commenting, "Gino Rosato and I

come from the same region of Italy, Abruzzo, we have been close friends for

years and it was always a dream of ours to work together. Claudio Berro and Dany

Bahar are also old friends and I honestly never thought that I would get the

opportunity to work with these great people."

He went on to say," It was a great occasion and I thoroughly

enjoyed seeing all the fantastic Classic Lotus F1 cars and new Lotus models. The

facilities at Group Lotus are very impressive and I was amazed at the dedication

and craftsmanship that goes into the production of Lotus cars. The Lotus Evora

lived up to all my expectations of what a Lotus would be like to drive. It is

clearly a very well engineered car that provides an exceptionally rewarding

drive and I am looking forward to Lotus' exciting future."

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