{"id":10817,"date":"2011-01-31T06:56:05","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T11:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=10817"},"modified":"2011-01-31T06:56:05","modified_gmt":"2011-01-31T11:56:05","slug":"new-lotus-called-t128-not-tl11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/new-lotus-called-t128-not-tl11\/","title":{"rendered":"New Lotus called T128, not TL11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s Team Lotus car is called T128, not TL11 as was previously announced.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why the change of name?&#8221; wrote team boss Tony Fernandes on Twitter.\u00a0 &#8220;Because we are continuing with history.\u00a0 We are a new dynasty but tradition contiunes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the team &#8211; then called Lotus Racing under official license from the Proton-owned carmaker Group Lotus &#8211; raced its 2010 car with the T127 designation.<\/p>\n<p>T127 was the continuation of the original Lotus team&#8217;s traditional vehicle designation system, and it was thought that the reversion to TL11 for this year was to avoid yet another clash with Group Lotus amid the naming dispute.<\/p>\n<p>Indicating that the designation of the 2011 car was an issue right until the T128&#8217;s reveal very early on Monday morning, the launch magazine made no mention of the two variations.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s Team Lotus car is called T128, not TL11 as was previously announced. &#8220;Why the change of name?&#8221; wrote team boss Tony Fernandes on Twitter.\u00a0 &#8220;Because we are continuing with history.\u00a0 We are a new dynasty but tradition contiunes.&#8221; Last year, the team &#8211; then called Lotus Racing under official license from the Proton-owned &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[2241,5262,5340,2775,62],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10817"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10818,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10817\/revisions\/10818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}