Auraline

Founded from the ashes of the original Lotus F1 team a newcomer has arrived. With help of the Icelandic engineering group named Auraline, Lotus gave the green light to begin this new project. After Lotus were recently bought by Ford they imidiatly stepped in to supply a new version of the legandary cosworth DFV, now named the DFE8. After early preparations started back in late 2003 they announced in August of 2004 that they would be running a team in F1, right in time for the 2005 rule changes. After they announced their driver line-up consisting of 2 very experienced drivers named Mika Häkkinen and Bernd Schneider they also confirmed their plans for this and next season. Their team boss Haukur Karlsson said: "we hope to consistently fight for points so we can challenge for wins from next season onwards." Only time will tell what the future holds for this well funded team.

(mautits also wants to marry him)