Basically, kalo tak silap, agreement dgn Lotus Group/Proton kata 1MRT (abe tony) tabley pursue rights for team lotus sebab Group Lotus tengah wrangle dgn David Hunt (owner of Team Lotus masa tu).

Tapi abe tony pegi approach david hunt jugak thus complicating the matter further.

Grp Lotus tamau abe tony rosakkan nama Lotus - walaupun team lotus tu satu entiti yg berlainan dari group lotus.

abe tony nak nama lotus utk sponsors n such.

memacam rumours... ada yg hint macam abe tony nak take over group lotus from behind ke amende.


I dun trust abe tony.... He's in for the money, not passion. IMHO.

Pertarungan jenama tambah hebat

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Vitaly Petrov, pemandu Lotus Renault menjulang trofi yang dimenanginya di Melbourne, Australia semalam.

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KUALA LUMPUR - Pasukan Lotus Renault membuktikan bahawa mereka lebih hebat berbanding Lotus apabila meraih kedudukan di podium pada perlumbaan kereta Formula Satu (F1) di Melbourne, Australia semalam.
Ia hasil kejayaan pemandu kelahiran Rusia, Vitaly Petrov yang menduduki tangga ketiga pada perlumbaan Grand Prix (GP) Australia.
Pada perlumbaan pembuka tirai F1 2011 itu, pemandu sensasi Red Bull, Sebastian Vettel yang juga juara dunia 2010, muncul juara sementara Lewis Hamilton daripada McLaren menduduki tangga kedua.
Kejayaan Petrov di Litar Albert Park itu membuktikan pelaburan yang dilakukan Kumpulan Proton Holdings Berhad menerusi anak syarikat milik penuhnya, Lotus Group berbaloi.
Selain meraih podium sulung, kejayaan itu juga satu kemenangan moral buat dua jenama kereta Lotus dan Renault yang baru bergabung tenaga musim ini dalam kancah F1.
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Renault Lotus is much much better. I suspect Tony is actually cuba nak pegang jenama Lotus dan akan jual pada satu harga yang menguntungkan kepada Lotus Plc bila dia dah hilang minat atau rasa sudah menguntungkan...

Sauber pon canggih gak... sayang Mercedes tak bernasib baik...

Tahniah petrov.>

Si heidfeld mcm dh season jer....

Tp gua mmg suka kaler renault lotus ni.

heidfeld tak cukup masa naks esuaikan diri dengan keta kubica tu...

agak2 apa kesudahan pertelingkahan dari segi perundangan terhadap both team nih?

guna cara orang Melayu la, bertolak ansur.. jangan asyik LAWAN TETAP LAWAN je

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guna cara orang Melayu la, bertolak ansur.. jangan asyik LAWAN TETAP LAWAN je

apa yang jadi perdebatan dorang sgt yerk? nape xleh bernaung dibawah 1 bumbung, rasanya lagiler untung both party...

Mahkamah benarkan Tony guna nama Lotus

27/05/2011 11:33pm

MONACO 27 Mei - Team Lotus dibenarkan mengekalkan nama pasukannya itu selepas mereka memenangi kes di Mahkamah Tinggi London berhubung penggunaan nama pasukan bagi perlumbaan Grand Prix Formula Satu (F1).

Hakim telah memutuskan bahawa Team Lotus yang diterajui oleh Datuk Seri Tony Fernandes boleh meneruskan penggunaan nama Lotus sepanjang musim ini. - Reuters

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Mahkamah benarkan Tony guna nama Lotus

27/05/2011 11:33pm

MONACO 27 Mei - Team Lotus dibenarkan mengekalkan nama pasukannya itu selepas mereka memenangi kes di Mahkamah Tinggi London berhubung penggunaan nama pasukan bagi perlumbaan Grand Prix Formula Satu (F1).

Hakim telah memutuskan bahawa Team Lotus yang diterajui oleh Datuk Seri Tony Fernandes boleh meneruskan penggunaan nama Lotus sepanjang musim ini. - Reuters

hmmm, mean hanya utk musim nih jerk ler...

aku ada somewhere yg aku tak ingat.by 2012 ke 2014 lotus renault ni akan sepenuh jadi milik lotus.segala enjin/chassis akan guna lotus..

bagi aku ni satu perkembangan yg positive.

Lotus F1 engine would be a logical step, says Bahar

(Reuters) - Malaysian-owned sportscar maker Lotus could eventually build their own Formula One engine as well as running a team, Lotus Group CEO Dany Bahar said on Wednesday.

Bahar told reporters at the Royal Automobile Club in London that the engine move, though a long way off, was a logical step for a group who will be Renault's title sponsors next season at the renamed Lotus Renault GP team.

"We have plans underway to think about our own engine family in our road car programs for the future," he said.

"The fact that we have announced that we will be developing an engine for Indycar for 2012 shows already that we are heavily interested in becoming an engine manufacturer with our own brand."

Renault, who have sold all their stake in a team that will still carry their name, have a three-year deal to supply Lotus Renault GP with engines as well as champions Red Bull and the rival Team Lotus operation.

However the Formula One engine rules are changing, with a 1.6 liter four cylinder turbocharged unit due to be introduced in 2013.

Bahar, heading a young management team whose plans he recognized were "super ambitious and aggressive," hoped to take Lotus into profitability in the next five years with a new multi-car offering linked to various motorsport series.

He said Lotus, whose road cars currently use Toyota engines, saw themselves as "the British Porsche" rather than a Ferrari rival and like the German manufacturer intended to sell and race cars in every sportscar segment.

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"We have the capacity, we design engines for other OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) so there is no reason why we should not be able to build and design engines for ourselves," said Bahar.

"I believe on the road car side, the engine is the heart of any sportscar and it is not far away from thinking for us that it would be the right decision to build our own engine for future sportscars.

"This is the first step, having a complete own product -- a sportscar with an own engine -- and then the rest is a logical consequence."

Bahar, who joined Lotus from Ferrari in 2009 after previously working for Red Bull, recognized that many fans would see him as 'the Bad Guy" in a battle with grid rivals Team Lotus, who competed this year as Lotus Racing.

That team's boss, Malaysian entrepreneur Tony Fernandes, is seeking a ruling in the London High Court over the rights to the Team Lotus name and is also taking legal action against Lotus Group and their owners Proton for terminating a five-year licensing deal.

Bahar expected the matter to be resolved out of court, while saying that earlier attempts to do a deal with Fernandes had foundered due to "ridiculous and absurd" demands.

"If the price would have been right, if some conditions would have been more realistic I believe this would have been the right approach," he added. "So we were not afraid of partnering with Mr Fernandes."

Bahar said the Team Lotus name, created by the late Colin Chapman, should be allowed to rest in peace as a glorious part of Formula One history.

Lotus Group, he said, merely wanted to be recognized as the owner of the Lotus brand with the right to enter any sports activity.

"We don't want other people to call their car a Lotus because the Lotus car is our brand," he said.

"We are not claiming to be Team Lotus or to become Team Lotus. We do not want to become a second Team Lotus, we will never be one."

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