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Team Lotus to stick with green & yellow colours

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Lotus has released images of the black and gold livery it had planned to run in 2011 before Renault announced that it too would paint its car in the John Player Special colours.

Lotus set up a competition at the end of last season for fans to design its 2011 livery in black and gold and received a large response. However, when Group Lotus announced it was sponsoring Renault next year, the Enstone-based squad immediately unveiled a black and gold livery of its own.

As a result Lotus will again run in the traditional green and yellow colours, but still went through with the competition anyway. The winner was Raphael Campos who took inspiration from Emerson Fittipaldi's championship-winning Lotus 72D that was the first car to run with JPS sponsorship.

The team will paint a show car in the colours next year.