{"id":8538,"date":"2010-09-23T07:31:40","date_gmt":"2010-09-23T11:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=8538"},"modified":"2010-09-23T07:31:40","modified_gmt":"2010-09-23T11:31:40","slug":"lotus-to-make-2011-announcements-on-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/lotus-to-make-2011-announcements-on-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Lotus to make 2011 announcements on Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lotus has scheduled a raft of &#8220;exciting announcements&#8221; for Friday in Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>According to widespread paddock sentiment, the press conference will include confirmation of a technical tie-up with Renault, and an official change of name to the historic &#8216;Team Lotus&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, a team-liveried AirAsia plane shown off by team and airline owner Tony Fernandes on Thursday is already emblazoned with a &#8216;Team Lotus&#8217; logo.<\/p>\n<p>Almost certainly also on the agenda will be confirmation of the 2011 driver lineup.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about the rumours in Singapore on Thursday evening, Heikki Kovalainen said: &#8220;Let&#8217;s put it this way and then leave it at that; I know where I want to be.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fernandes said: &#8220;We&#8217;ll be making a couple of very exciting announcements.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lotus has scheduled a raft of &#8220;exciting announcements&#8221; for Friday in Singapore. According to widespread paddock sentiment, the press conference will include confirmation of a technical tie-up with Renault, and an official change of name to the historic &#8216;Team Lotus&#8217;. Indeed, a team-liveried AirAsia plane shown off by team and airline owner Tony Fernandes on &#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":[5262,5340,912,62],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8538"}],"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=8538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8539,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8538\/revisions\/8539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}