RE: Team Lotus And Renault F1 Renamed

[TobesH]

CDP said:

TobesH said:

Imagine the updated Caterham website -

Now you can choose between the Caterham Graduate series from £20k including the car, or try our new offer, the world famous Formula One series, £20million and you get to take the car home at the end of season!

More to the point, an Asian built Caterham for the Chinese and Indian markets. Sports car racing will get really big over there and Caterham's in at the ground floor.

Fascinating! Look forward to following this T

[NSBlake]

benim83n said:

Caterham in f1? interesting. Thats like an S2000 in GT3 or a Toyota IQ in BTCC

You haven't seen my S2000 on Forza 4........ ;-)

[Ipelm]

I would love to agree with you dingocook however I need to point out that during the 50's 60's 70's and 80's (by which I assume you mean the good times; which I definetely agree with you) the politics were even more toxic in the sense that certain manufacturers had the governing body change formula to suit cars on the drawing board and let through cars that cleary didnt conform with regs etc. Got entrants excluded from series and many other dark goings on. Ie. Matra, Ferrari Renault etc.

What is so galling about this story is its sheer trivia value, a bunch uncompetitive bozos trading on the past glories of names from another era for god knows what reason, money and ego? Why we even care I dont know its unreal, we discuss it like tv addicts discuss soap operas and confuse reality wih fiction. In this case the fiction is that somehow these teams will become players......they wont, they will however drag these great names down into the annuls of the racing gutter.

Edited by Ipelm on Monday 7th November 22:21

[rubystone]

CDP said:

rubystone said:

But look to Jaguar/Land Rover for proof of how a car company can be successful in private hands.

Or you always could hark back to the good old days of the nationalised British Leyland.

Joke, right?..

[DanB7290]

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/96006

Says about Catherham moving to a factory in Leafield, I'm assuming that would be the old Arrows/Super Aguri place?