Things are starting to get a bit messy in the whole Lotus F1 situation!
The current Lotus team buy the rights to Team Lotus, owned by James Hunts brother, Team Lotus being the only Lotus company to have ever raced in F1, Colin Chapman set the F1 team up as a separate company to protect the car manufacturing side in case of legal action etc. Proton who own the Lotus car company chuck their toys out of the pram and say they can’t use it, but the curent F1 team carry on anyway and do a deal for Renault engines and announce they will be racing in gold and black next year. How do the Proton owned Lotus company respond, they buy the Renault F1 team (Renaults shares in the team) and release images of their car in back and gold!
What does that mean for next year? Well potentially their will be for Renault powered Luts cars racing in black and gold, Lotus Renault F1 (Former Renault Team and partially owned by Proton/Lotus road car company) and Team Lotus Renault (Current Lotus F1 team and owners of the Team Lotus naming rights). Confused? You will be!