Team Lotus Press Release - May 15, 1994


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FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

      GRAND PRIX  MONACO GRAND PRIX
         CIRCUIT  MONTE CARLO
            DATE  SUNDAY 15 MAY 1994
  JOHNNY HERBERT  DNF
      PEDRO LAMY  11TH

RACE RESULT
1st  Schumacher   Benetton
2nd  Brundle      McLaren
3rd  Berger       Ferrari
4th  De Cesaris   Jordan
5th  Alesi        Ferrari
6th  Alboreto     Minardi
7th  Lehto        Benetton
8th  Beretta      Larrouse
9th  Panis        Ligier
10th Comas        Larrouse
11th Lamy         Lotus

CONSTRUCTORS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
1st  Benetton     40 pts
2nd  Ferrari      22 pts
3rd  McLaren      10 pts
4th  Jordan       10 pts
5th  Williams      7 pts
6th  Sauber        6 pts
7th  Tyrrell       4 pts
8th  Footwork      3 pts
9th  Larrouse      1 pt
10th Minardi       1 pt

DRIVERS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
1st  Schumacher   40 pts
2nd  Berger       10 pts
3rd  Hill          7 pts
4th  Barrichello   7 pts
5th  Alesi         6 pts
6th  Larini        6 pts
7th  Brundle       6 pts
8th  Hakkinen      4 pts
9th  Katayama      4 pts
10th Wendlinger    4 pts
11th Fittipaldi    3 pts
12th Frentzen      2 pts

Thursday 12 May
Johnny Herbert: 13th  1:24.103
  "We've still got a grip problem with the 107C, but here we've managed to
   get a nice balance. The thing with this circuit is that you can attack a
   lot more without paying the sort of penalty you might on a quicker track.
   It's really just a matter of how much you want to risk it, how much you
   want to chance hitting a barrier."
Pedro Lamy: 20th  1:25.859
  "My car felt a little better this morning.  This afternoon it wasn't so
   good, which is really strange because we didn't change a thing.  Now I've
   got a lot of wheelspin so maybe there's something wrong with the 
   differential.  It was getting worse with every lap."
Peter Collins:
  "A good effort by both drivers, and an improvement over our performance
   level of late.  We're very pleased with the performance of the Mugen-Honda
   engine today."

Saturday 14 May
Johnny Herbert:  16th 1:22.375
  "We made changes to the set-up this morning, without actually being able
   to improve it.  We tried something else this afternoon, but that wasn't
   too good either.  We then did a damper and rollbar change and that
   resulted in a better balance for my second run, so I was able to push the
   car beyond its real limit."
Pedro Lamy:  19th 1:23.858
  "We ran with the same set-up as Johnny, and the grip and traction were
   better than they had been.  I was still having problems, though.  I didn't
   get a clear run, and then I ran out of fuel on my slowing down lap, and
   had to pull off at Casino Square."
Peter Collins:
  "Both Johnny and Pedro have driven very well throughout qualifying; neither
   of them made any mistakes on a circuit where it's easy to misjudge things."

Sunday 15 May
Johnny Herbert:
  "The race was pretty much incident-free for me, until I had a problem with
   the gearbox after 68 laps.  Numbers were coming up all over the place on
   the dashboard display and the gearbox was slow in responding to 
   downchanges.  Then after a bit everything seemed okay again.  Then it
   started to play up again, and the situation started to get very dangerous,
   especially in the tunnel, because the gearbox was changing down a couple
   of gears in one go without any warning.  The only thing to do was to come
   in and retire with six laps to go."
Pedro Lamy:
  "When I came in for my first tyre stop the mechanics noticed that there
   was fluid in the left rear wheel that they'd just taken off, so they 
   called me in  again for a safety check.  They checked the brake fluid
   level, which they found was okay.  After my second tyre stop they brought
   me in again just for another safety check."
Peter Wright:
  "Johnny was going well until he got caught up in a gaggle of cars behind
   Comas.  Unfortunately he then had an electrical gremlin in his gearbox
   which decided to take over decisions on downchanges.  Johnny took the
   only sensible course and retired.  Until that point we were pleased that
   he was able to race so well in the mid-field.  We're relieved that
   throughout the race, Formula One did not have any further incidents."

ROUND 5 - SPANISH GRAND PRIX, BARCELONA - SUNDAY 29 MAY 1994



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