All Posts Tagged With: "Lotus"
Tony Fernandes & Richard Branson Engage In A Little Wager
They both own airlines, are considerably wealthy and now find themselves involved in Formula One, each investing heavily in a team each and bringing the entrepreneurial edge to the sport. Both Tony Fernandes and Richard Branson are also known to enjoy good rivalry, and during this weekend’s Bahrain Grand Prix it became known that the [...]
Lotus Announce CNN Sponsorship Deal
New team to 2010, Lotus Racing, have announced a substantial sponsorship deal today with the CNN news network company. The partnership will see CNN logos on the Lotus T127 as it charges around the circuits and the deal will be overseen by CNN’s senior vice president of the company’s International Advertising Sales division, Rani Raad. [...]
Meet The Cars: Lotus T127
Lotus, a name that will spark many memories of a golden age in Formula One, is returning to the sport it once dominated, the name resurrected by a variety of Malaysian backers. In fact, although the team is currently based just a few miles from the Lotus car factory in Norfolk, the intention is for [...]
Keep On Smiling, Alex
As Father De Rea looked on from outside the helicopter, Terry Trammel tightened the belt around Alex Zanardi’s severed left leg. Dabbing his finger in holy oil, De Rea read Alex his last rites. The make-shift tourniquet kept slipping as medics struggled to stem the incessant bleeding. A fading pulse and plummeting haemoglobin count painted [...]
Elio
For thirty minutes he lay there, motionless under the bright May sky, unconscious to the world and the lack of attention being given. Debris was strewn over the embankment like shattered glass, glimmering in the light but telling a far darker story. Drivers stood around with heads in hands. Marshals looked on in utter disbelief. [...]
Remembering Jim…
Forty years ago today Formula One, motor sport and the world lost a very great man. A remarkable man whose career, although short, was filled with records, wins and titles. A man who demonstrated such a supreme level of skill and control, who could wrestle a car around the most dangerous of circuits and still [...]
