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Lotus is investigating a return to Indycar, GT racing and Le Mans, as well as a deeper involvement in Formula One under new CEO Dany Bahar.

Bahar, who has previously worked for the Ferrari and Red Bull F1 teams, confirmed the legendary Lotus name would make a prominent comeback to motorsport to return to the days last seen under Colin Chapman.

“Lotus will return to motorsport,” Bahar told Lotus employees. “We will investigate participation in Indycar series, GT and Le Mans racing a...Read the full article

Only one thing concerns me, where is the money coming from to fund these racing programmes?

"Parent firm Proton owns the Team Lotus name and has given permission for a Malaysian-backed consortium to use it on its F1 cars next year."

 Your facts are wrong.  Proton does not own the rights to the name "Team Lotus."  David Hunt does.