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**Feelundseenna** · 04-28-2011, 12:06 AM

Are you sure that is an official website? TF has stated that he plans to have both Lotus and Caterham in F1 and that he will wait for the court verdict before any name change on autosport. Seems strange.

Indeed that website isn't official. Maybe they are just securing a domain name just in case the 'Team Lotus' name blows up in their face:

http://thef1times.com/news/display/03170
The F1 Times along with Peter Allen can reveal that several domain names including the Sonangol name, as well as the Caterham brand have been registered using the same company behind the teams current domain, teamlotus.co.uk.

Net Names, a company which specialises in acquiring domain names for clients, was hired by Team Lotus in 2010 to gain control of teamlotus.co.uk - they also acquired several names, listed below, on April 19th of this year, just days after Tony Fernandes was named as director of Caterham Cars, according to documents from Companies House.

Sonangolcaterham.com; Sonangolcaterhamf1.com and Sonangolcaterhamteamlotus.com, among others, were registered by Net Names, likely confirming news that Team Lotus will rebrand to include the new title sponsor and the Caterham cars brand in some form or another.

04-28-2011, 12:06 AM	#8
Feelundseenna Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 457 Senior Member	Are you sure that is an official website? TF has stated that he plans to have both Lotus and Caterham in F1 and that he will wait for the court verdict before any name change on autosport. Seems strange. Indeed that website isn't official. Maybe they are just securing a domain name just in case the 'Team Lotus' name blows up in their face: http://thef1times.com/news/display/03170 The F1 Times along with Peter Allen can reveal that several domain names including the Sonangol name, as well as the Caterham brand have been registered using the same company behind the teams current domain, teamlotus.co.uk. Net Names, a company which specialises in acquiring domain names for clients, was hired by Team Lotus in 2010 to gain control of teamlotus.co.uk - they also acquired several names, listed below, on April 19th of this year, just days after Tony Fernandes was named as director of Caterham Cars, according to documents from Companies House. Sonangolcaterham.com; Sonangolcaterhamf1.com and Sonangolcaterhamteamlotus.com, among others, were registered by Net Names, likely confirming news that Team Lotus will rebrand to include the new title sponsor and the Caterham cars brand in some form or another.
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