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On November third the Formula One COMMISSION will meet. On the agenda will be the Renault team dropping that name and adopting the "LOTUS" name.

A decision will also be made on the existing TEAM LOTUS changing its' name to "CATERHAM" for the 2012 season.

I would like that. Would you?

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Caterham has also hired a Mr. Shute from Lotus, the designer of the Elise, I believe. A few other Loti gents followed him to Caterham. It seems that the new owners of Caterham want to make additional models of extremely light performance sports cars.

An F1 team could lend some credibility to the brand. Works OK on the high end sports cars for McLaren and Mercedes. A very interesting business plan, I think.

Anyone going to Texas next year for the race on Nov 18? I'm hoping for a Prisoner paint scheme on the F1 cars.