Chief technical officer Team Lotus Mike Gascoyne predicts brighter 2012 season – Formula 1 news
Mike Gascoyne believes the name change is going to make a significant effect towards team’s efforts of finishing at the sharp end of the grid.
He also said that now the priority of the team is to make improvements to achieve better standing in the constructors’ and the drivers’ championship. The car is being updated as well so that in can be much more competitive from last year, with the new regulations
in place, no team clearly knows how it is going to perform and that is something teams will find out once the season starts. The aim although now is clearly better grid finishes.
“I think that we can be very proud that we brought the Lotus name back to Formula One,” Gascoyne told Team Lotus Notes.
“However, I don't think we get too emotional about waving goodbye to Team Lotus, simply because we have always been clear that it was the name of the team we have used for the past couple of years, and what makes up the team has been the really important
factor in what we've already achieved,” he said.
“My overwhelming feeling is that is that we can be proud of what we did as Team Lotus. But we have our own brand now,” he further added.
Team Lotus officially became Caterham today and announced that the name of their new car will be CT01. Team Lotus changed its name after the car company Caterham Group became the biggest sponsor of the team.
Talking about leaving the Team Lotus name he said, he was not too worried or being emotional over it, because the whole staff and team is still the same it is just the name that has change. He said that he does feel very proud of bringing the Lotus name
back to F1 but he is not going to dwell on the names too much.
It will be interesting to see how Caterham performs in the 2012 season, all the teams are gearing up for the season and competition is speculated to be fierce. It is sure to be an exciting start to a season of some uncertainty over the cars which are tweaked
to conform to the new regulations in place.
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