[F1] TL & LR morgen oog in oog in de rechtbank

[Jeroenbox]

vandaag op de bbc bij de kwalificaties in Monaco was het erg duidelijk dat men vond dat GL de rechtzaak had verloren. tijd en geld verspild was zo ongeveer het commentaar van Eddy Jordan

[Jeroenbox]

ik ben het wel eens met die livery inderdaad. TL heeft nu de Caterham in die kleuren en de sympathie van dat merk erbij. dat is toch een beetje de spirit die de huidige Lotus rijders hebben. Je ziet die TF ook gezellig in TL kleuren over de paddock rennen en in de pits staan. betrokken en aan de slag

[Frederik]

Heb reeds meerdere keren gezegd dat ik meer sympathie heb voor Tony Fernades dan voor Dany Bahar ... Ook Tony is een harde businessman, toch slaagt hij erin iedereen achter zich te krijgen.

Tony en zijn team doen er alles aan om "gewoon" te doen tov hun fans. Hun connectie met de fans is ongekend (en ik volg al jaren de F1). Je kan alwaar binnenkijken in alles wat ze doen en laten. Uiteraard worden bepaalde zaken achter gehouden, dat is meer dan normaal ... maar nooit eerder was een team zo close met hun fans. Vermoedelijk hebben ze er een mannetje (of vrouwtje) voor aangenomen maar dat is de kostprijs waard denk ik. Goed gezien Tony!

Dat schept een band en zo krijg je veel sympathie. Daar kunnen vele bedrijven en teams een puntje aan zuigen.

Lotus Renault : 35.201 leden (Facebook) vs. Team Lotus : 100.325 leden (Facebook)

[Frederik]

Fernandes has been buoyed by a High Court ruling that he has the rights to use the Team Lotus name in F1.

Car company Group Lotus, which sponsors the Renault team, had claimed that it had the sole rights to the Lotus brand.

The High Court judge also emphasised in his ruling that because of a 1985 agreement between Team Lotus and Lotus Cars, Team Lotus had the right to call their F1 cars Lotus.

Fernandes said he had not yet decided whether to add the Caterham sports car brand, which he bought earlier this year, to the name of his F1 team.

"I'm in an awesome mood - very happy," he said.

"It's the final piece of our strategy and, difficult as this period has been, in some ways it has turned out fantastically, in that we probably wouldn't have got Caterham before, so we now have a Formula 1 team, a car company, and a couple of other brands coming through.

"We're going to step back a bit. We have some thoughts. In my mind maybe by Silverstone [in July] we will unveil something.

"We will add Caterham to the GP2 team's name, that's for sure. I don't have any concern about Team Lotus promoting Lotus."

The court case followed the decision by Group Lotus boss Dany Bahar to sponsor an established team, rather than stick with Fernandes, whose outfit made its debut in 2010.

Fernandes could not resist criticising Bahar's decision.

"We're very happy with the case," Fernandes said. "We're Lotus and they're Renault. It's very clear.

"I'm amazed Dany Bahar has been allowed to get away with the strategy - $30m and 90% of his credibility goes to Renault. I don't see the logic of it."

Lotus Cars has said it plans to appeal against the decision, believing that having two teams in F1 with Lotus in their name is confusing for spectators.

The appeal, said Group Lotus head of legal Sarah Price, is "so that the right to use the Lotus brand in Formula 1 is clarified once and for all".

"Group Lotus and its shareholder Proton Holding Bhd are confident of success on appeal," a statement added.

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