December 28, 2009 @ 11:36 pm

So where are the malaysian engineers who submitted their resume?

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Thats a very good question. Didn't they publicise the many positions to fill and that they got over 6000 applicants?

And I'll never fly Air Asia to London again.. lousy seat, tasteless meal.

Owh, this is an auto-related blog.. go Lotus! Die you Air Asia 8astards!

My apology Paul.

December 28, 2009 @ 5:28 pm

does this mean he actually does not want fairuz?

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YES.

Yeaaa……

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By the way, if you are really into cars and racing, this (F1 n IRC n D1 etc.) must be one hell of a milestone in our countries short motoring history. Id say this, I support our F1 or WRC/IRC or D1 etc. regardless of who the PMs or the menteris or the govmnt or the Alex Yoongs or the Sheikh Muzafar are. Afterall whats politics got to do with it… Alex Yoong didnt do well in his short F1 stint… but I bet he was the best weve got at that time and seeing Malaysia do well in racing has now become his personal career… so kudos to him. And all the best to Fairuz Fauzi.

I suppose the other option is… dont enter races, dont make cars… lets just go to work and enjoy our mundane routine… or go fishing… dhuuh! If you love cars, you love cars…period!

p/s: Paul, you should consider setting up another blog Pauliticstan.org

a) Mahathir – KLCC

b) Abdullah – Space travel

c) Najib – Malaysia Formula 1 team.

Putting millions and millions in fake country pride doesn’t make the malaysian citizen live better. Concentrate on corruption and reducing individual expenditure should be the priority.

Deduction of fuel subsidy and increase sugar tax next year are going to increase our living expenditure. Yet, high vehicle price forcing  us buy expensive vehicles.  “Corruption Project – NAP” (i.e.  Recon car and Rebuild trucks) cause  foreign car makers  suffer massive sales lost, and create barrier to potential foreign car makers.

Imagine if today Govt abandon NAP, which allow foreign car makers (GM, Volkswagen) to enter local market and generate more sales, that would definitely increase employments throughout the whole nation, from production, logistic & distribution, Sales & Marketing, service workshop, HR and admin, perhaps even R&D.

So, Wake up ladies and gentlemen who comments above! You should think of you and your family future and protest the Lotus F1 team, not to which driver or technician, but to the VERY NATURE OF IT.

Hi Cyrus…i f u put foreign car makers in your country just to produce cars like producing typewriters, it is pointless to have these companies because sooner or later they will shift to other places because of cost, right now, we can see sweden nothing to be proud of… volvo being sold to china geely..saab going to be bankrupt and axed…80,ooo swedes going to be unemployed within a week.. this is problem having GM, Volkswagon being your national products and dumped into dustbins of history and who did not give a damn about people livelihood, i think you do not understand basic marcoeconomics and generate wealth within your own country… Luckily proton was not sold to GM or Volkswagon…or else 100,000 Malaysian will be unemployed right now!!

and LOTUS F1 is owned by Tony and his friends. its a private venture, nothing to do with the GOV or even proton. the only GOV do is give their support, trough giving them the facility that we already have like SIC,  make them collaborate with Malaysian Universities and give permission to tony to use 1malaysia logo for him to promote the country.

as long as GOV is involve, wang rakyat is wasted? think properly…. BTW, there are no restriction on bringing in the foreign cars, except that they are more expensive(because of tax), infact, there are Honda R&D institute in Malacca.

malaysians like cheaper car, thats why they choose recons over new. not that GOV recommends recons infact they are against it(give discounts to change from old to new cars).

a) Mahathir – KLCC

b) Abdullah – Space travel

c) Najib – Malaysia Formula 1 team.

Putting millions and millions in fake country pride doesn't make the malaysian citizen live better. Concentrate on corruption and reducing individual expenditure should be the priority.

Deduction of fuel subsidy and increase sugar tax next year are going to increase our living expenditure. Yet, high vehicle price forcing  us buy expensive vehicles.  "Corruption Project – NAP" (i.e.  Recon car and Rebuild trucks) cause  foreign car makers  suffer massive sales lost, and create barrier to potential foreign car makers.

Imagine if today Govt abandon NAP, which allow foreign car makers (GM, Volkswagen) to enter local market and generate more sales, that would definitely increase employments throughout the whole nation, from production, logistic & distribution, Sales & Marketing, service workshop, HR and admin, perhaps even R&D.

So, Wake up ladies and gentlemen who comments above! You should think of you and your family future and protest the Lotus F1 team, not to which driver or technician, but to the VERY NATURE OF IT.

Even on the Top Gear blog, a malaysian goes there and starts making a fool out of himself and us. Does not look good now, does it?

You are entitled to your opinion, but insulting someone? That does not bode well anywhere.

And there are plenty of other ways to be funny. Its not called extremism, why not take a stroll through the comments of this blog? You will notice that there is a huge majority of negativity and hatred for our own kind.

Only in Malaysia.

We have no expertise in f1 but until when can we live just hlp form outsider, why should bash the gov when they agree to give m'sian the paltform so build  xpertise

especially all the pessimist on this comment page!

come on lah.. since we are spending all that money all ready, give the lotus team our full support.. knowing my tax money is racing away on a GP circuit is better that seeing a cancel crooked bridge for the next 20 years!!

after 52 years a independence, still all this negativity… tassk tassk tassk.. grow up lah people.

Actually tokmoh, you are wrong.

The phrase in automotive world goes like

''Ferrari sells cars to fund racing'' which was shortened to "Ferrari sells cars to race''.

Although Soichiro Honda was a great fan of racing, and the similar phrase could be used, it was coined up for Ferrari. This happened during the beginning of feud between Enzo Ferrari and Ferrucio Lamborghini. Lambo bought a car from Ferrari, and it had technical issues, which he informed Enzo. Enzo could not actually literally give a rat's a$$, because he was not interested in the road cars. His only passion was for the tracks.

btw, what is Flower F1 team engine using?

Fuh fuh… Msians, msians… if this interview is conducted by mainstream media, will say biased la… govt's mouth la… etc.

So formula1.com conducted interview. Then say MG is the one who's a liar.

Macam tu baik tak yah baca langsung.

You know what people appreciate? Comments like ferrucio's it makes sense, and a pleasure to read. Sounds educated.

You sound like you jst wanna say something to say something. Doesn't that make you an idiot? Dont come here and spam.

Too many morons like you who keep commenting retarded sh!t.

Back to the original post. It does sound like MG does puts the blame on everyone else, except himself. If he failed, take responsibility, don't say the management was messed up. Thats not right.

I understand why Mike and the team management opted for experience because there is a lot of expectations from Malaysians and the Lotus brand. A very steep learning curve is expected from the team, nothing less, which even cash rich Toyota cannot achieve. So don't expect too much in the first year.

I just hope Fairuz Fauzy will somehow get a chance to show his skills driving the Lotus and become the 2nd Malaysian driver after Alex and inspire other potential F1 Malaysian drivers.

The rumour within F1 is that he has regularly taken undeserved credit over the years for the hard work of others in the design team. He markets himself well and is PR savvy.

Another reputation is that he is an opportunist and is always unethically  'on the take' earning from supplier and driver deals.

And thanks to the reputation Gascoyne has been jobless until now when a new team is desperate for someone with F1 experience and doesn't know any better.

Some say the only car that could be associated to him for success was the Jordan.

He is not of the same calibre as Ross Brawn or Adrian Newey, much as he leads the media to believe.

As the technical director with Lotus F1 he is responsible for managing technical resources rather than sit down to design the cars which I think he hasn't done for a very long time anyway.  Someone from Fondtech probably did that for him. Lets see how long he will stay with Lotus F1 and what he delivers..