Team Lotus, a British constructor, competed in the 1989 Formula 1 season with Nelson Piquet and Satoru Nakajima.
Team Lotus finished 6th in the 1989 constructors' championship with 15 points and no wins or podiums – 126 points behind champions McLaren. Team Lotus's best result was 4th, by Satoru Nakajima at the Australian Grand Prix.
Final 1989 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.
13 shared GPs
Both cars, every round. S = sprint result.
Short answers about Team Lotus in 1989.
Nelson Piquet and Satoru Nakajima drove for Team Lotus in the 1989 Formula 1 season.
Team Lotus scored 15 points in 1989 and finished 6th in the constructors' championship, 126 points behind champions McLaren.
Team Lotus did not win a Grand Prix in 1989; its best result was 4th.
| 1 | DNF | P8 | 0 |
| 2 | DNF | DNF | 0 |
| 3 | DNF | – | 0 |
| 4 | P11 | DNF | 0 |
| 5 | DNF | DNF | 0 |
| 6 | P4 | – | 3 |
| 7 | P8 | DNF | 0 |
| 8 | P4 | P8 | 3 |
| 9 | P5 | DNF | 2 |
| 10 | P6 | DNF | 1 |
| 12 | DNF | P10 | 0 |
| 13 | DNF | P7 | 0 |
| 14 | P8 | DNF | 0 |
| 15 | P4 | DNF | 3 |
| 16 | DNF | P4 | 3 |