Lotus boosts management team
Date published : 16 Feb 2010 - 17:23:36
Lotus Racing has announced that it has strengthened its senior management team by appointing two shareholders, S M Nasarudin and Dato' Kamarudin Meranun, as deputies to team principal Tony Fernandes.The pair were present at the new Malaysian-owned, Norfolk-based team's launch in London last Friday evening, where it unveiled its new T127 car before a large audience of team members and guests.Our goals and objectives are clear but, as mentioned earlier, there is still a huge task at hand, explained Fernandes.We have 19 races to go through and, with the three of us assisting each other in our roles, we believe that the management has all the necessary resources to bring the team to the forefront. Commenting on his appointment, Nasarudin said: We made this dream possible, turning it from a simple Malaysian dream to reality.This was all made possible through passion, hard work and team spirit.As with all the challenges that we have had to face to get to where we are now, we embraced these challenges as a team and now are even more determined to finish what we have started.We are realistic of our goals and by no means will it be easy from this point onwards, but the belief is there.We will consistently bring with us a professional and confident set-up to each of the races for this season.As team owners, and in our deputy principal roles, it further reflects our continued belief and commitment to this team.The Mike Gascoyne-designed T127 will make its public testing debut at this week's Jerez test, which gets underway on Wednesday.Fernandes and Gascoyne say the team's targets are to do a professional job at the Bahrain season-opener, quickly establish itself as the best of the new entrants, and begin challenging the established teams for points finishes towards the end of the 2010 campaign.
