Group Lotus’s new motorsports ambitions will be spearheaded by its anew appointed Director of Motorsport Claudio Berro, who will address anon to CEO Dany Bahar. Both Berro and his bang-up Bahar are ex-Ferrari men. Berro was ahead the Operations Antagonism Director for the Speedcar Middle-East International Race Series.
Before that, he captivated positions at Ferrari, Maserati and Fiat as Formula One Team Manager, Director amenable for all action activities for Ferrari and Maserati (excluding F1), General Manager Maserati Corse and Director of Fiat Group’s Motorsport Activities, and Antagonism Operations Director for Abarth. So he’s absolutely a man with experience.
“Lotus has a aces motorsport heritage, not aloof in Formula One, but we accept additionally won in sportscar racing, alehouse car racing, apple assemblage championships, Le Mans and the Indy 500. There is no added car aggregation in the apple which can lay affirmation to so abounding accolades and championships in such a advanced array of motorsport fields, and I am attractive advanced to re-introducing Lotus to aerial akin motorsport to not alone attempt and win but additionally to authenticate the aggregate technology amid Lotus sportscars and approaching antagonism cars,” said Berro.
Of course, Lotus is additionally in Formula One, except it absolutely isn’t. The new Lotus F1 Team is absolutely run by Litespeed in agreement of abstruse expertise.
Lotus Engineering is currently blame its Versatile Agent Architecture to any architect that wants to authorization it as a abject belvedere for approaching cars.
The Lotus Evora is the aboriginal assembly car to admission based on the VVA anatomy and ahead we’ve additionally apparent the Lotus APX Concept which was additionally congenital on the VVA. It’s absorbing how these two models could accept appear off the aforementioned abject belvedere as the APX is a advanced agent crossover SUV affectionate of affair while the Evora is a mid-engine sports car.
The VVA allows for the development of a ambit of cartage up to a gross agent weight of 1,900 kg. It is advised for low to mid aggregate applications and is an change of technology from the tub that forms the base of the Elise, Exige and Europa. The tub now allows for affluence of admission and departure from the agent (it’s not absolutely accessible to get in and out of an Elise), body modularity and improved, lower-cost repairability.