ozzy72 wrote on Jan 14^th, 2011 at 8:02am:


To be honest, Mercedes (even more British, as the engine's from Northampton) and Red Bull ought to do the decent thing too . As for Force India, we'll leave them alone until there's a vague chance of them getting on the top step.

Foreign money can buy the teams, but the irrefutable truth is that F1 is really a firmly British based industry (and always has been), with an occasional success by a bunch of prima-donna Italians!

Craig. wrote on Jan 14^th, 2011 at 4:24pm:


I think it's a firm move from the team to make themselves independent of the Renault ties - in effect from now on they are just like RBR and the other "Lotus" (who've now lost the backing of the Chapman family - I assume the switch to the Fernandes "1Malaysia", or whatever, brand is not too far away...) in being a customer. In effect the "team formerly know as Renault" are now an un-named team, running under the official Lotus branding, using Renault engines, which, in the big argument over which is the "real" Lotus, actually means a lot.