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How Lotus Recruited Toyota employees... Into a Bar

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Julien Simon-Chautemps was Kimi Räikkönen's last track engineer at Sauber, but he told how his dream of F1 almost stopped abruptly after the 2009 season, until a meeting in a commercial with Mike Gascoyne. Today, a consultant, notably for F1TV, the Frenchman worked for stables such as Lotus, Sauber and Renault, but his career in Formula 1 nearly ended at the same time as the Toyota adventure in the queen category, which ruined him the (...)
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Julien Simon-Chautemps was Kimi Räikkönen's last track engineer at Sauber, but he told how his dream of F1 almost stopped abruptly after the 2009 season, until a meeting in a commercial with Mike Gascoyne. Today, a consultant, notably for F1TV, the Frenchman worked for stables such as Lotus, Sauber and Renault, but his career in Formula 1 nearly ended at the same time as the Toyota adventure in the queen category, which ruined him the (...)

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Nextgen-Auto.com broke the news on Saturday, May 30, 2026.
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