Check out this time laps video of a custom paint job we did for Juls Lotus Exige.

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It’s the kind of outside-the-box thinking one might hope for with a brand launching into Formula One racing for the first time. Although the Lotus name has been around in F1 since 1958, there’s an important distinction: Team Lotus and Lotus weren’t exactly the same group.

The name disappeared from the sport between 1994 and 2010 when it came back under license to Tony Fernandes, an entrepreneur best known for turning once-failing Air Asia into a successful publicly listed company. For the upcoming year, Lotus will run under their own name, while Fernandes’ team will re-emerge as the Caterham F1 Team.

The Caterham CT01 car made the news last week after its photos leaked a day early onto the internet. We don’t have much information on the Lotus car yet, but we do know that 2007 Formula 1 world champion Kimi Raikkonen will be at the wheel.

Watch the teaser below.

via: Autoguide

Here are some pictures from this past weekend’s Lotus Cup at Buttonwillow Raceway Park in Buttonwillow California.  Congrats to the winners:

Time trial for 211 -  1st Andy Kern, 2nd Jack Fried, 3rd Eddie Park

Time trial for Cup – 1st Ramon “El Torro” Neibla, 2nd Mike Bryant, 3rd Miguel Broce

Time trial for spec class – 1st Peter Mokran, 2nd Thomas Macmillan, 3rd Greg Linderman

This was the last Lotus CUP fo 2011 so we’ll see you next year for a bigger and better 2012!

Lotus Cup USA using our Lotus Evora as a pace car at Buttonwillow Raceway Park.

Congratulations to Andy for coming in 1st, Jack who came in 2nd , and Ramon, aka El Toro, for coming in 3rd.  We’ll see you all at the last Lotus Cup USA for 2011 in November at Buttonwillow Raceway!

Congrats to our buddy El Toro for coming 1st in class and 3rd overall at Spring Mountain for Lotus Cup USA.  Also, congrats to Roy for coming in 2nd and April for coming in 3rd in class.

Sorry for the week delay on uploading our pictures but here they are!  Congrats to our buddies Andy Kern again for taking first, Jack Freid for coming in second, and El Toro who came in 1st in his class and 3rd overall..

Also, we hope you enjoy the picture of Julio (above), Mulholland Motorsport racer and our newest male model.  Be on the look out for his 2012 calendar!

We have some race video coming shortly so stay tuned!

One of our clients wanted us to restore his Vespa Scooter.  Check out the before and after.