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Team Lotus to become Sonangol Caterham F1?
http://www.thef1times.com/news/display/03170
Caterham F1 sponsored by an Angolan Petrol company?? it looks to be anounced tomorrow. there are already some webadresses registered: http://sonangolcaterhamf1.com/ http://sonangolcaterham.com/ http://sonangolcaterhamteamlotus.com/ |
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No, we want to be Team Lotus! It's not fair! Renault are bullying us! We're the REAL Lotus! We are, we are, we are!
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seems to me like fernandez knows that either he aint got a leg to stand on in the naming row and is either a) buying caterham to say 'look ive got the original lotus' or b) is trying to use caterham to wiggle out and save face by saying i was going to name it caterham all along, either way i dont like him using caterham as a pawn in his little game....stinks big time!
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I'm sure they're just covering their asses for the possibility that their court case goes tits up.
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Its nice that Mr Fernandes chose to 'save' this cottage industry... but others have found it quite financially unrewarding (thinking of Spyker here...) Any news on commercial sponsors (like naming rights..)? |
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Interesting.
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An interesting one to be watching the next couple of days. I do hope Caterham does come through ok though. |
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I just don't give a you know what anymore. It's stupid - all really, really stupid.
That's a technical term. Selby |
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27 Apr 2011, 12:03 (Ref:2870545) | #9 | ||
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All confirmed that they've bought out Caterham.
Fernandes said: “Caterham has a unique place at the heart of the motoring world. As well as being proudly and staunchly British, it has an enviable and uniquely unblemished reputation within the industry for performance, handling and engineering excellence." Sorry but i've lost respect for this guy. Worst public identity crisis in some time. Are you Lotus, Air Asia, Malaysia, or United Kingdom?!?! Selby |
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i think it's a great decision. and you're all miserable old cynics.
let's put another spin on it - caterham bought by sound, competant businessman with good corporate links and a strong existing brand. not many of those around willing to invest in a british based company, is there? |
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such an offence PALES INTO INSIGNIFICANCE compared to the HEINOUS crime of DARING to open a CLOSED chapter of motorsport or something.
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Easy now, people.
All i'm saying is the fella's had a complete identity crisis. I just wish he'd stick to his plan rather than change it all the time and expect everyone to not notice! One minute it's all Malaysian, the next it's hearty English. Just stick to the plan, Tony! Selby |
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The acquisition of Caterham Cars is a very odd move. I can't see any synergy between that organization and anything else in the TF portfolio. Caterham are a low tech small volume sports/kit car manufacturer that have been producing ostensibly the same model car since they started.
Maybe TF needs to plough his own furrow instead of dwelling on the past. His team have progressed reasonably well in F1 and would do well to focus their efforts there instead. |
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This is it davyboy.
I take nothing away from him as far as what he's done with that team. They've done the best of the newcomers, despite having less notice than the others. That's fantastic. It just irks me this whole chopping and changing thing. "The good always win", us and them, we are the real Lotus, we arn't the real Lotus, we are British, we are Malaysian. C'mon... Selby |
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regarding the british/malaysian identity "crisis". meet tony fernandes. he is very english. the only thing not english about him is his passport, and his businesses being mainly based in asia. he's so british he's been honoured by the queen. but he's malaysian. the other members of the board are malaysian.
so what can they do besides identify strongly with malaysia and the fanbase there and quite rightly point out they're malaysian owned, funded and managed. yet they're based in the uk - and are rightly proud of the people who work for them. no matter where they're from. suggest everyone moves on and enjoys fernandes' business, publicity and entrepreneurial skills. they're not "living in the past". are mclaren "living in the past" by producing road cars? no. they're diversifying and taking what they know from f1 composites, precision engineering and handling and putting it in a road car. the difference is that team lotus are going for a different market, and they don't need to take valuable people away from the f1 side of the team to invest in the caterham side. the skills are already there, and there's no need to stage any form of management intervention. |
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Tony will win the court case... and eventually he will own group lotus....
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Jesus - there's like six drivers in that picture.
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