Who is the greatest Lotus Formula 1 driver of all time?
Colin Chapman built cars that made champions and broke hearts, often in the same season.
1Jim Clark
Won two titles and 25 grands prix for Colin Chapman's team, plus the 1965 Indianapolis 500.
1000pts
2Ayrton Senna
Won six grands prix for Lotus between 1985 and 1987, including his first at Estoril.
619pts
3Mario Andretti
Developed the ground-effect Lotus 78 and 79 and won the 1978 title with them.
524pts
4Mika Hakkinen
Broke into Formula 1 with Team Lotus in 1991 and 1992 before McLaren and two titles.
512pts
5Johnny Herbert
Scored points on debut for Lotus in 1989 with feet still healing from a Formula 3000 crash.
468pts
6Romain Grosjean
Took ten podiums for the black-and-gold Lotus of 2012 and 2013.
419pts
7Innes Ireland
Scored the works team's first championship victory at Watkins Glen in 1961.
363pts
8Graham Hill
Took the 1968 title for Lotus weeks after Clark's death.
299pts
9Emerson Fittipaldi
Became the sport's youngest champion to date with Lotus in 1972.
299pts
10Stirling Moss
Gave a Lotus its first grand prix win at Monaco in 1960, in Rob Walker's privateer car.
299pts
11Ronnie Peterson
Lotus' brilliant number two, killed after the 1978 Monza start crash.
226pts
12Jochen Rindt
Lotus' 1970 champion, crowned posthumously after Monza.
226pts
13Gunnar Nilsson
Won the 1977 Belgian Grand Prix in the wet before cancer ended his career.
226pts
14Elio de Angelis
Gave Lotus its 1982 Austrian Grand Prix win by two hundredths of a second.
140pts
15Nigel Mansell
Made his Formula 1 debut for Lotus and spent five seasons there before Williams.
140pts
16Kimi Raikkonen
Won twice for the Enstone team that raced as Lotus in 2012 and 2013.
140pts
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