Richie Stanaway Joins Lotus Art

Lotus ART is pleased to announce that Richie Stanaway will be joining Valtteri Bottas and James Calado in the GP3 Series championship starting with the Spa-Francorchamps (Belgium) races to be held August 27 and 28...

Richie Stanaway was crowned 2010 ADAC Formula Masters Champion, and has won 9 of 12 races so far in the 2011 German Formula 3 championship. At age 19, the New Zealander convinced Lotus ART that he had the sporting and mental abilities needed to reinforce the duo of Valtteri and James, who have three wins between them, and are first and fifth in the overall ranking respectively.

Lotus ART's Team Manager Frederic Vasseur declared, "I am truly very pleased to welcome Richie to our trio of drivers competing in the GP3 Series. He made an excellent human and sporting impression on the entire Lotus ART team from our very first meeting. Making the leap from German F3 to the GP3 Series mid-season for in his third year of competition in motorsport is a big challenge, and Lotus ART will be with him every step of the way, to make sure this partnership bears fruit."

"I'm very excited about the opportunity to join Lotus ART for the remaining GP3 races of this season. I'm sure that it will be a great new environment for me to learn and test myself against the other drivers to see how my performance compares," Richie said, "I'm very thankful to Lotus ART and Gravity for giving me this opportunity and I'm looking forward to the first race this weekend in Spa."