{"id":9772,"date":"2010-11-19T19:27:05","date_gmt":"2010-11-20T00:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=9772"},"modified":"2010-11-19T19:27:05","modified_gmt":"2010-11-20T00:27:05","slug":"report-lotus-to-be-proton-1malaysia-in-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/report-lotus-to-be-proton-1malaysia-in-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Report &#8211; Lotus to be &#8216;Proton 1Malaysia&#8217; in 2011?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Proton 1Malaysia&#8217; has been touted as a possible new name for Tony Fernandes&#8217; formula one team in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the team currently known as Lotus Racing is locked in a dispute with Group Lotus, who intend to separately enter F1 next year in collaboration with Enstone based Renault.<\/p>\n<p>That raises the messy possibility of two teams being called &#8216;Lotus&#8217;; a situation that now involves the courts and also the Malaysian government, part-owner of the Group Lotus parent and carmaker Proton.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed new name for Lotus Racing was published by The Advertiser, a regional UK newspaper close to the Norwich headquarters of both Fernandes&#8217; team as well as Group Lotus.<\/p>\n<p>It would be a tidy solution to the current dilemma, probably involving sponsorship for Fernandes&#8217; small team to compensate for the lost FOM revenue due to a name change, and clearing the way for Renault F1 to be renamed Lotus-Renault in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>And Fernandes&#8217; team &#8220;will become a flagship Malaysian constructor hoping to build on tenth place in its first season&#8221;, said the report.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">\u00a0\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Proton 1Malaysia&#8217; has been touted as a possible new name for Tony Fernandes&#8217; formula one team in 2011. Currently, the team currently known as Lotus Racing is locked in a dispute with Group Lotus, who intend to separately enter F1 next year in collaboration with Enstone based Renault. That raises the messy possibility of two &#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":[2435,5262,5340,912,62],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9772"}],"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=9772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9773,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9772\/revisions\/9773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}