{"id":2431,"date":"2010-02-13T18:35:48","date_gmt":"2010-02-13T23:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=2431"},"modified":"2010-02-13T18:35:48","modified_gmt":"2010-02-13T23:35:48","slug":"no-malaysian-move-for-new-lotus-team-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/no-malaysian-move-for-new-lotus-team-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"No Malaysian move for new Lotus team yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Lotus has put on hold plans to relocate in the near future to Malaysia.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When the new team&#8217;s official entry was confirmed last September, the FIA said Lotus&#8217; plan was to be based at the Sepang circuit.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Some days later, the Malaysian prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak said the cars would be designed, made and tested at the venue near Kuala Lumpur.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It will all be made in Malaysia, and made by Malaysians,&#8221; he said, adding that even the pit crew will be made up of Malaysians despite being led by the British F1 technical expert Mike Gascoyne.<\/p>\n<p>However, Lotus&#8217; 2010 car, launched in London on Friday, has been designed at Hingham, Norfolk (UK).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Right now, stability is important and there are no plans to move to Malaysia yet,&#8221; team boss Tony Fernandes, also head of the Malaysian airline AirAsia, said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In time, obviously, it would be great to be in Malaysia because there&#8217;s a formula one track, but we have no immediate plans to move,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>He said the concept of relocating to Sepang will be reconsidered next year.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lotus has put on hold plans to relocate in the near future to Malaysia. \u00a0 When the new team&#8217;s official entry was confirmed last September, the FIA said Lotus&#8217; plan was to be based at the Sepang circuit.<\/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":[5262,306,5335,305,721,5336,62],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2431"}],"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=2431"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2433,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2431\/revisions\/2433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}