{"id":12536,"date":"2011-05-28T07:40:51","date_gmt":"2011-05-28T11:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=12536"},"modified":"2011-05-28T07:40:51","modified_gmt":"2011-05-28T11:40:51","slug":"team-lotus-needs-name-tweak-for-2012-ecclestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/team-lotus-needs-name-tweak-for-2012-ecclestone\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Lotus needs name tweak for 2012 &#8211; Ecclestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Team Lotus claimed victory in the court dispute, but the Tony Fernandes-led outfit might have to change its name for 2012 and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>That is the claim of Bernie Ecclestone, after the London High Court declared a complex verdict in the name dispute brought by Malaysian-owned British carmaker Group Lotus.<\/p>\n<p>After the latter claimed victory, Team Lotus issued a second media statement clarifying that it can use &#8220;the Team Lotus name and roundel (logo) &#8230; in relation to formula one racing&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>But with Renault sponsor Group Lotus also cleared to continue deploying the famous name in F1, Ecclestone suggested that Team Lotus might have to undergo a slight identity switch next year.<\/p>\n<p>His comments tie in with a reference by Team Lotus in its first press statement on Friday to &#8220;the Caterham Team Lotus umbrella&#8221;; a reference to Fernandes&#8217; recent acquisition of the specialty British sports car maker.<\/p>\n<p>Ecclestone told Blick: &#8220;Fernandes can keep the name Team Lotus.\u00a0 However, his cars may not be called Lotus.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the registration for the world championship, the team (name) comes first, then the car.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Strictly speaking Fernandes would have to sign up as Team Lotus and something,&#8221; added the F1 chief executive to the Swiss newspaper.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Team Lotus claimed victory in the court dispute, but the Tony Fernandes-led outfit might have to change its name for 2012 and beyond. That is the claim of Bernie Ecclestone, after the London High Court declared a complex verdict in the name dispute brought by Malaysian-owned British carmaker Group Lotus. After the latter claimed victory, &#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":[2241,59,5262,5340,2231,55,62],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12536"}],"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=12536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12537,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12536\/revisions\/12537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}