I am doing an essay on the demise of Team Lotus.

Thus far I've covered the following issues in some detail:
- The death of Chapman
- An outline and comparison of results from Williams and McLaren during the same time period (1985-1994)
- Constant changing of engine manufacturer and configuration, giving the engineers no benchmark to work from.
- The effect of less FOM money from declining results

But I'm yet to fully understand the context of it all. I don't have any idea when they started operating at a loss, for example.

Details on any other issues related to their demise is much appreciated!

mokin: