Saturday, March 20, 2010

Lotus F1 Racing signs deal with CTRM for R&D

December 4, 2009 by Negative Camber  
Filed under Prime & Option, Top Story

1Malaysia Racing Team Sdn Bhd (1MRT), the parent company of Lotus F1 Racing team, today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Composites Technology Research Malaysia (CTRM) for the latter to undertake research and development (R&D) that includes for the manufacturing of components for the Lotus F1 cars.

CTRM is a government linked company specialising in [...]

Malaysia: First a race…now a whole team Lotus?

September 3, 2009 by Negative Camber  
Filed under People & Events, Top Story

Reading Autosport’s report on the situation with BMW and a Malaysian consortium racing to get the final slot for F1’s series in 2010; I was struck by the notion that the government was looking at this from multiple perspectives.
First, they already have a Grand Prix in Malaysia and their largest car company, Proton, owns a [...]