Lotus in F1: Yes, No, MAYBE????| Grassroots Motorsports forum |

oldeskewltoy HalfDork
4/6/12 1:23 p.m.

http://skiddmark.com/2012/04/lotus-the-manufacturer-exits-formula-1/

Javelin GRM+ Memberand UltimaDork
4/6/12 1:35 p.m.

Whaaaaa?

Holy cow that's a crazy turn of developments. It's sad to see what's happening to Lotus, last of the great English sports car makers.

DukeOfUndersteer PowerDork
4/6/12 1:37 p.m.

I no understand.

EDIT: Nevermind, Brad dumbed it down for me to understand

93EXCivic UltimaDork
4/6/12 2:26 p.m.

Javelin wrote: Holy cow that's a crazy turn of developments. It's sad to see what's happening to Lotus, last of the great English sports car makers.

I agree it is sad. But they aren't the last of the great English sports car makers. Morgan is still around.

DukeOfUndersteer PowerDork
4/6/12 2:27 p.m.

I say screw all that! If Marussia can be a team, someone get something going for British Leyland!

93EXCivic UltimaDork
4/6/12 2:31 p.m.

DukeOfUndersteer wrote: I say screw all that! If Marussia can be a team, someone get something going for British Leyland!

No!!! Then they would all be badge engineered pieces of crap. Someone start team Triumph and Team BMC.

iceracer SuperDork
4/6/12 5:25 p.m.

Aren't there two differrent Lotus's. Seems i read that somewhere.

Apexcarver UberDork
4/6/12 5:28 p.m.

iceracer wrote: Aren't there two differrent Lotus's. Seems i read that somewhere.

Last year, this year its Lotus (Renualt) and Caterham (Malaysian team)

Adrian_Thompson Dork
4/6/12 5:51 p.m.

What pisses me off is that Lotus Renault sued to stop team lotus (Nee Caterham) from using the name, even though they had clear legal rights to the name Team Lotus. They (Lotus Renault) lost and it was determined they could both use the name. But Caterham decided it would be too difficult so changed their name from Team Lotus to Caterham. Now Lotus is bailing from Renault so Caterham could have remained Team Lotus.

Got that? Good.

T.J. UberDork
4/6/12 9:16 p.m.

If Caterham goes back to calling themselves Team Lotus it would just as funny as the bit from Spinal Tap where they change their band name from The Originals to the New Originals when they find out there is already a band called The Originals. Then they almost changed their name back to The Originals when the other band called the Originals changed their name.

David: Well before that we were in different groups, I was in a group called The Creatures and w-which was a skiffle group. Nigel: I was in Lovely Lads. David: Yeah. Nigel: And then we looked at each other and says well we might as well join up you know and uh.... David: So we became The Originals. Nigel: Right. David: And we had to change our name actually.... Nigel: Well there was, there was another group in the east end called The Originals and we had to rename ourselves. David: The New Originals. Nigel: The New Originals and then, uh, they became.... David: The Regulars, they changed their name back to The Regulars and we thought well, we could go back to The Originals but
what's the point? Nigel: We became The Thamesmen at that point.