This Friday has been marked out as a likely turning-point in the Lotus naming dispute.<\/p>\n
Finland’s Turun Sanomat reports that November 19 could see a settlement in the dispute, with Tony Fernandes’ team wanting to keep its name but the separate Group Lotus looking to enter F1 with a Renault collaboration next year.<\/p>\n
Indeed, it is believed that Proton-owned Group Lotus is scheduling an official announcement about its F1 project for 2011 this week.<\/p>\n
At the same time, Fernandes is hinting that a decision has been made about how his team should proceed.\u00a0 “(Shareholders) Nasa, Din and myself know what to do.\u00a0 We are the people’s team,” he wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n
It seems likely that the matter will not become a messy court battle.<\/p>\n
“What we don’t want to be involved in is destroying the Lotus name,” Fernandes is quoted by Reuters.<\/p>\n
“We feel that we’ve done justice to the Lotus name.\u00a0 We want to keep it.\u00a0 We feel it’s ours.\u00a0 But we are also pragmatic human beings,” he said.<\/p>\n
And the team’s technical boss Mike Gascoyne told Turun Sanomat: “I don’t know what the name will be in the future, but that’s not the important thing.<\/p>\n
“I’m proud of the team and we’ve proved this year how strong we are.\u00a0 And at least one thing can never be taken away from us — we brought Lotus back to F1,” he said. This Friday has been marked out as a likely turning-point in the Lotus naming dispute. Finland’s Turun Sanomat reports that November 19 could see a settlement in the dispute, with Tony Fernandes’ team wanting to keep its name but the separate Group Lotus looking to enter F1 with a Renault collaboration next year. Indeed, it …<\/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":[5262,5340,2415,912,62],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9717"}],"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=9717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9718,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9717\/revisions\/9718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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