{"id":15937,"date":"2012-05-04T06:53:44","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T10:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=15937"},"modified":"2012-05-04T06:53:44","modified_gmt":"2012-05-04T10:53:44","slug":"fernandes-rues-lack-of-malaysian-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/fernandes-rues-lack-of-malaysian-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Fernandes rues lack of Malaysian support"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tony Fernandes has admitted he would have liked corporate Malaysia to have backed his formula one team.<\/p>\n

\"Tony-Fernandes\"The Malaysian entrepreneur founded a UK based start-up team in 2010, calling it Team Lotus before a bitter spat developed with the Lotus name’s owner Proton.<\/p>\n

“While I was building a formula one team, I was being sued by my own countrymen,” he told The Star newspaper.<\/p>\n

“We’re the only true formula one team developed in Malaysia.”<\/p>\n

Now called Caterham, the team’s only Malaysian sponsorship is from AirAsia — Fernandes’ own low-cost airline.<\/p>\n

“Never mind that we were not sponsored (by Malaysia), that’s a company’s prerogative,” he said.\u00a0 “But, we were sued.”<\/p>\n

Some have accused Caterham of not having progressed much since 2010, but Fernandes strongly disagrees.<\/p>\n

“Two years ago we had nothing.\u00a0 We’re now 1.5 seconds away from Red Bull who are the world champions.\u00a0 We’re closing the gap.<\/p>\n

“You can’t build Rome in a day,” he insisted.<\/p>\n

\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tony Fernandes has admitted he would have liked corporate Malaysia to have backed his formula one team. The Malaysian entrepreneur founded a UK based start-up team in 2010, calling it Team Lotus before a bitter spat developed with the Lotus name’s owner Proton. “While I was building a formula one team, I was being sued …<\/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":[3021,5262,5340,62],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15937"}],"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=15937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15938,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15937\/revisions\/15938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}