{"id":312,"date":"2009-06-06T20:49:23","date_gmt":"2009-06-07T04:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/?p=312"},"modified":"2009-06-06T20:49:23","modified_gmt":"2009-06-07T04:49:23","slug":"team-lotus-may-return-to-f1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/2009\/06\/06\/team-lotus-may-return-to-f1\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Lotus returning to F1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Norfolk-based <a href=\"http:\/\/www.litespeedf3.com\/\">Litespeed<\/a> Formula 3 team has announced plans to enter the 2010 Formula 1 season under the iconic <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Team_Lotus\">Team Lotus<\/a> name. The founders of Litespeed, Nino Judge and Steve Kenchington are both former Lotus engineers, and have received permission from Lotus name rights-holder David Hunt to use the evocative title for their F1 bid. Former Team Lotus driver <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Johnny_Herbert\">Johnny Herbert<\/a> has joined the team as driver manager and commercial ambassador. <\/p>\n<p>Design work on the chassis has already been started by Mike Gascoyne who welcomed the news that the project would use the Lotus title. &#8220;I am Norfolk born and bred,&#8221; said Gascoyne. &#8220;For me to continue my F1 career under the banner of the Team Lotus name and help to bring it back to its deserving place in the world championship is a fantastic feeling and something that I am extremely proud to be doing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autosport.com\/news\/report.php\/id\/75903\">Autosport<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Norfolk-based Litespeed Formula 3 team has announced plans to enter the 2010 Formula 1 season under the iconic Team Lotus name. The founders of Litespeed, Nino Judge and Steve Kenchington are both former Lotus engineers, and have received permission from Lotus name rights-holder David Hunt to use the evocative title for their F1 bid. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/2009\/06\/06\/team-lotus-may-return-to-f1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Team Lotus returning to F1&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,14,19,1],"tags":[200,309,524],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqLPi-52","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}