cider_and_toast said:...and I think starting to damage the Lotus name.
...and the understatement of the year award goes to:....
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Anyway, words cannot describe the mess BOTH parties have made IMO.
This is a fall out of three or four Malaysian businessman. Nothing more than that. Unfortunately it happens that the monumental fall out is all over what was a glorious British manufacturer, that almost certainly had its time cut short, but even if its founders death was horrible and untimely, it died a natural and humble death many years ago and actually ALL this does is fuck up that companies legacy and reputation.
If i ran the FIA right now id be telling both of them to STFU, look for a new name, or get out of F1.