quoteValsecchi: My salary was like that of a waiter, but Lotus hasn’t paid me yet
As fears about Lotus’ well being mount, their 2013 reserve driver Davide Valsecchi has revealed he has not yet been paid by the Enstone based team, as he looks set to sever ties with them. As reigning GP2 champion, 26-year-old Italian Valsecchi served last year as Lotus’ reserve driver, but he admitted last week he is now likely to exit. “After a 2013 season in which I travelled a lot but did not get on the track, I want to go back to wearing overalls and a helmet,” he had said.
When Lotus overlooked him late last season as Kimi Raikkonen’s replacement in favour of Heikki Kovalainen, Valsecchi admitted that the decision made him “angry”. “I thought that, in their choice, my willpower would prevail over a driver like the Finn, who is at the end of his career,” he told the Italian website Formula 1passion.it this week. Valsecchi admits that he is likely to leave Formula 1 because powerful pay-drivers “such as the Mexicans or Venezuelans” have priced drivers like him out of the market. “I don’t conceal my desire to get into Indycar,” he said.
In the meantime, there are real fears among Lotus’ fans about financial the health of the Enstone based team. Although highly competitive, the black and gold liveried outfit finished last season amid headlines about its elusive Quantum buy-in deal, and now Lotus has been only conditionally listed on the 2014 entry list. The very latest news is that team CEO Patrick Louis has resigned.
quoteLotus emulation to include going bankrupt January 25th, 2014 | Author: admin
The Lotus team are to complete their metamorphosis into the original Lotus by going into liquidation.
The Hedge Fund backed squad of identity thieves revealed it was fully committed to emulating everything about the original team’s incarnation, unveiling a vaguely innovative nose design shortly after revealing it was $200m in debt and had lost its team principal.
Team owning financial dupe, Gerard Lopez said, “we’re very respectful of this heritage that we pilfered using a load of complicated, debt-laden financial instruments.” “It’s why we sensitively copied a colour scheme popular back in the day when selling fags to kids was thought of as being perfectly acceptable.”
“Now we’re not paying anybody either, once the car is breaking down every week the legend that is Lotus will have nearly come full circle,” the balding finance twat commented.
Lotus became cool when it was revealed people more easily forgot about a tax embezzeller who built cars so flimsily they killed the people who sat in them because he also invented 3 things that made racing cars go faster and made a vehicle a fictional British agent drove underwater in a film.
“I’m just waiting to make a deal with some laughable person involved in distinctly underhand financial shenanigans and then we can get the bailiffs in,” Lopez added.
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Tue Jan 14, 2014 9:22 pm
Another Lotus victim 
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Really? 
Great Momo 
Good they don´t lose their humor.
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