Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Bayan ya ga kwangilarsa ta shekaru uku a watan Maris, Peterson ya shiga kungiyar Lotus ta Colin Chapman a kakar 1973, tare da abokin hamayyar mai karewa Emerson Fittipaldi. A lokacin wasanninsa biyu na farko tare da Lotus, Peterson ya ci nasara bakwai, inda ya zira kwallaye 52 mafi kyau a shekarar 1973. Bayan mummunan kakar 1975, Peterson ya koma Maris kuma ya zira kwallaye na karshe a kungiyar a 1976 Grand Prix na Italiya. Bayan ya shafe kakar 1977 tare da Tyrrell, ya koma Lotus don kakar 1978 a matsayin mai lamba biyu ga Mario Andretti. Peterson ya ci nasara biyu, a Afirka ta Kudu
da kuma tseren Grand Prix na Austrian, kuma ya gama na biyu a gasar zakarun na Drivers duk da mummunan haɗarin da ya faru a Monza a lokacin Grand Prix na Italiya.