Team Lotus And Renault F1 Renamed
Lotus becomes Caterham and Renault becomes Lotus for 2012
Team Lotus and Lotus Renault GP (that's Renault to thee and me) have finally settled their long-running dispute over the use of the Lotus name after F1 bosses agreed that Renault could change the name of its cars to Lotus for 2012.
Team Lotus, meanwhile, will run Caterhams next year (after team owner Tony Fernandes bought out the British sports car company earlier this year) and will change their official name to reflect that.
Oh, and the Virgin team will now officially run Marussia chassis. But you probably don't really care all that much about that...
So remember: Team Lotus, nee Lotus Racing, is now Caterham. And Renault, nee Benetton (or possibly even Toleman), and also called Lotus Renault GP, is now Lotus. Clear? Good...
And whatever the names of the cars lining up on the grid in 2012, at least we won't have two entirely separate teams with Lotus badges and Renault engines...
It's madness but equally brilliant!
All Caterham cars should have new paint scheme, suitable F 1 decals etc and used stock marked up by 15% at least due to F1 involvement and future successes !!!
All stems from a Lotus background, albeit a trendsetting 7 ala Chapman.
Caterham in F1 does still seem a bit weird, mind.
Still, it won't be the first time a Caterham was in an F1 grand prix (OK - it wasa Lotus 7 that was entered in the non-championship 1962 Rand GP).
"What sort of car is that?"
"It's a Caterham"
"Oh, like the F1 cars?"
"Yes, exactly like the F1 cars..."
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