Team Lotus to include Caterham in near future in F1

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Tony Fernandes recently had purchased Caterham's Cars and now the Team Lotus is planning to include Caterham in the F1 in near future.

As the name row has been cleared and Team Lotus is allowed to keep the name Lotus, Tony Fernandes is expecting to gain some new sponsors for the team.

"I'm very happy," Fernandes told AUTOSPORT. "This is the final piece of our strategy jigsaw now. We have the Team Lotus name, we have the F1 team, we have goodwill, we have the roundel and we have the jewel in Caterham.

"This decision gives us the strategy to move forward, which we are very, very happy about. We will use the F1 team to provide the car company with exposure, and we are looking at bringing out a couple more brands.

"It's good to get this decision out of the way. And, as tough as it was, I am very happy with the outcome because we would not have got Caterham if this trouble hadn't started."

Fernandes revealed that his outfit will soon announce some major new sponsors now that the naming issue has been resolved - and that he expected further commercial opportunities to open up for him.

"We already have Dell, and we have signed up another big sponsor which we will announce before the Canadian Grand Prix," he said. "There are other sponsors out there who said they wanted to wait until after the court case, so I am hopeful of more in the future."



Tony Fernandes is already in a process to rename his GP2 outfit Team Air Asia to Caterham before Valencia round on June 24-26.

"I plan to include Caterham into the GP2 name and we will be applying to the race organisers for a name change. Hopefully that can be done by Valencia."