RE: Lotus Sponsors Norwich City

RE: Lotus Sponsors Norwich City

Wednesday 7th May 2003

Lotus Sponsors Norwich City

Lotus target the footy crowd


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girlracer

Original Poster:

442 posts

262 months

Wednesday 7th May 2003
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Ooh great, now everyone's Elise's become instant targets for football vandalism! Norwich fans prise off your Lotus badge, and away team fans puke in your car.

jamesc

2,820 posts

291 months

Wednesday 7th May 2003
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Complete waste of money! Money that could go to supporting up and coming drivers in Gt. I call on PHers to e-mail Lotus and let them know that the Elise is now the car of the lager lout!

James

jamesc

2,820 posts

291 months

Wednesday 7th May 2003
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Quote "Lotus moved to its Hethel Headquarters 37 years ago and in that time we have gratefully received much support from the people here and I see this collaboration as a wonderful opportunity to give something back to Norfolk."


How about better facilities at Snetterton for starters!

johnnystorm

168 posts

280 months

Wednesday 7th May 2003
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Nice of them to decide to give something back to Norfolk after the delay of only 37 years. That just makes them sound daft. Hear Hear regards lotus sponsoring something that they actually have input into, i.e. up and coming young drivers or tarting up Snetterton. How about proton helping norfolk by getting lotus to make some other car models and employing people and leave Colemans/etc to football sponsorship.

jamesc

2,820 posts

291 months

Wednesday 7th May 2003
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...and another thing, Colin Chapman hated football!

James

johno

8,520 posts

289 months

Wednesday 7th May 2003
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So now Carrow Road will not only be known as "Delia's Cafe" BUT ALSO "Chapmans Garage" ..

Ferrari = prancing horse
Lamborghini = raging bull
Norwich City = canaries



Captain Muppet

8,540 posts

272 months

Wednesday 7th May 2003
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more here www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?f=14&h=&t=38290

Sorry Ted, I didn't wait for your story

Did Chapman really hate football? I'd love that to be true.

spaced invader

5 posts

272 months

Wednesday 7th May 2003
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Colin Chapman was an honoury member of the Norwich City board at one time. matbe thats why so many Lotus's are yellow and green!!!

being a huge Norwich City fan im more than pleased with the deal, but i do agree with many of the comments that have been posted that it would have been wise to have put the money in to Snetterton instead.

being a Snetterton regular (i live 2 minutes down the road) i find that the facilities are awful. there are no toilets on the outside of Russell chicane where i stand every week, there are bits of metal, wood and glass sticking out of the ground on some of the spectator banks and the comentary box isnt in use so the comentators use race control and cant see all of the circuit. lets hope that when octagon sells the circuit a true motorsport fan buys it and sorts these and many of the other problems out.

jamesc

2,820 posts

291 months

Wednesday 7th May 2003
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Stop Press!!!!

Peter Wheeler is to sponsor Blackpool; Ben Samuelson is to be their new manager!