This is what happens if you have venture capitalists who know
about running an F1 team as a business
Kimi should be suing Genii Capital not Team Enstone as they are the parent company of Lotus F1 racing
I never trusted Lopez and his crones when they bought Renault on the cheap and were hoping to sell it at the right price and never were too keen to put into it because Bahar's master plan to promote the Lotus brand does not seem to reap the rewards it has to be said as he 's long gone
The principle here they hired Kimi because as world champion he was good for marketing leverage and supposedly intention to be a front runner but they were not sure of his consistency so they paid him on results on a basic salary plus points bonus
I guess they tried to pull the wool over Kimi's eyes then and not expecting him to be that good and someone obviously did not get the calculator to realise if he scored 200 pts he would be owed 10m euros if he was front runner
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People say Kimi is being greedy having swindled Ferrari for some 150m euro for 3 years and does not need the money.
This was the attitude Genii have taken - well he's rich enough we don;t need to pay him I am surprised Kimi has turned round and said
off to them for actually driving his balls out for the team and delivering more than expected
Venture capitalists are not in it for the long term and will make a quick buck and disappear and I hope that will help team Lotus but their tight fisted cash flow policy has meant a lot of good engineers like Bob Bell have left the team and James Allinson as well
So you can't blame Kimi for moving on and Lopes had the nerve to say " I hope Kimi choses performance over financial reasons " when he has not been paid
Seriously imagine they did that to ALonso
