As has long been anticipated 3 teams will change their names from the 2012 season.
The name changes are:
Team Lotus will be known as Caterham after boss Tony Fernandes bought the Caterham motor car operation in 2011 as a strategy to diffuse the Lotus name row with Lotus Renault.
Lotus Renault which was the old works Renault team will now be called Lotus after they had a large stake bought in them by the Lotus car operation this year. And which led to the whole fiasco as to who owns the Lotus name as mentioned above.
Virgin Racing will be known as Marussia Racing as Richard Branson’s half arsed F1 attempt finally winds down to its inevitable conclusion. He makes a lot of noise and smoke but he never struck me as a true F1 man at heart. His F1 interest seems purely commercial, so goodbye to him
Strange that out of the 3 new teams HRT is the only one still bearing their original name! I am pretty amazed they still in F1 next season as I had tipped them to have disappeared off the grid by now.
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