Team Lotus, a British constructor, competed in the 1988 Formula 1 season with Nelson Piquet and Satoru Nakajima.
Team Lotus finished 4th in the 1988 constructors' championship with 23 points, 3 podiums but no wins – 176 points behind champions McLaren. Team Lotus's best result was 3rd, by Nelson Piquet at the Australian Grand Prix.
Final 1988 results after 16 rounds. Data: Jolpica F1 API.
Share of the team's points (race and sprint).
Race and sprint points per round, stacked by driver (Piquet, Nakajima: darker to lighter).
Shared Grand Prix only. Qualifying uses the qualifying classification.
14 shared GPs
Both cars, every round. S = sprint result.
Short answers about Team Lotus in 1988.
Nelson Piquet and Satoru Nakajima drove for Team Lotus in the 1988 Formula 1 season.
Team Lotus scored 23 points in 1988 and finished 4th in the constructors' championship, 176 points behind champions McLaren.
Team Lotus did not win a Grand Prix in 1988; its best result was 3rd.
| 1 | P3 | P6 | 5 |
| 2 | P3 | P8 | 4 |
| 3 | DNF | – | 0 |
| 4 | DNF | DNF | 0 |
| 5 | P4 | P11 | 3 |
| 6 | DNF | – | 0 |
| 7 | P5 | P7 | 2 |
| 8 | P5 | P10 | 2 |
| 9 | DNF | P9 | 0 |
| 10 | P8 | P7 | 0 |
| 11 | P4 | DNF | 3 |
| 12 | DNF | DNF | 0 |
| 13 | DNF | DNF | 0 |
| 14 | P8 | DNF | 0 |
| 15 | DNF | P7 | 0 |
| 16 | P3 | DNF | 4 |