{"id":17343,"date":"2012-12-10T19:20:25","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T00:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=17343"},"modified":"2012-12-10T19:20:25","modified_gmt":"2012-12-11T00:20:25","slug":"lotus-to-announce-title-sponsorship-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/lotus-to-announce-title-sponsorship-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Lotus to announce title sponsorship deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>F1 team Lotus is reportedly close to announcing a multi-million dollar title sponsorship deal with Honeywell, the American technology giant.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2012\/championship-f1-2012\/R12Jpn-F1\/R12Jpn-F1-11.jpg\" alt=\"R12Jpn-F1-11\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>&#8220;It is thought the framework of the agreement is in place and a formal announcement pending,&#8221; said Sportspro journalist David Cushnan on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The news follows Lotus&#8217; recent signing of a sponsor deal with Burn, the European energy drink label of the American beverage giant Coca-Cola.<\/p>\n<p>After a five year absence, the United States returned to the F1 calendar this year with a highly successful race on a bespoke circuit in Austin, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Citing &#8216;informed insiders&#8217;, Cushnan said the Honeywell deal could be worth $30 million per year to Lotus.<\/p>\n<p>The Enstone based team&#8217;s driver Kimi Raikkonen finished the 2012 world championship in third place behind Sebastian Vettel and Fernando Alonso.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>F1 team Lotus is reportedly close to announcing a multi-million dollar title sponsorship deal with Honeywell, the American technology giant. &#8220;It is thought the framework of the agreement is in place and a formal announcement pending,&#8221; said Sportspro journalist David Cushnan on Monday. The news follows Lotus&#8217; recent signing of a sponsor deal with Burn, &#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":[5262,4198,5340,4199,152],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17343"}],"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=17343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17344,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17343\/revisions\/17344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}