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Who writes all this rubbish om AR1.
Bitchy bitter comments are so common from them and the last line here is typical of them. Just bitchy but I wonder who screwed the journo up when he or she was a kidf.

09/12/10


Lotus to drop out of F1, increase IndyCar effort
The current KV Racing Lotus driven by Takuma Sato in IndyCar. Lotus can do a proper IndyCar program for 1/10th the cost of F1Formula one team Lotus could be set to change its name for the 2011 season. The Malaysian-owned team currently uses the historic name under license by Lotus Cars, the British sports car maker based in Norfolk.
The rumor about the Tony Fernandes-run team losing the name for formula one was reported by well-known French commentator Jean-Louis Moncet in his Auto Plus column.
He said there are two reasons for the decision, the first being the damaging reports about Lotus being sued by Force India and an Italian wind tunnel for allegedly stealing intellectual property.
But another reason is that Lotus Cars wants to prioritize the use of its name for its motor racing programs within the United States. They already have stated they may do a body kit for the new IndyCar so their name goes on the car as a Lotus (for whichever teams buy that kit), but it would not shock us to also see them have Cosworth do an IndyCar engine for them as well, though that is such speculation on our part at this time.
Lotus are also smart enough to realize that they will always be backmarkers in F1, so just as Honda and Toyota realized, it was only ruining their image.
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