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We have been looking at Formula One for about two years now," Ijaz told Sports Pro Media.
"We looked at three other teams before we decided on Lotus. I won't mention which ones but we had general discussions and in some cases very specific discussions.
"There were two things missing in the other teams we looked at. The first was the element of real team spirit, meaning across the board - vertically as well as horizontally - in terms of the breadth and depth of the team's capacity - its interconnectedness. I just didn't see that in any of the other teams that we looked at.
"The second element was the business brains that run Genii Capital and the business brains that affect the way in which Lotus is managed as a business; these are men cut from the same cloth as I have been throughout my career.
"There was a congruency in the way we thought the business ought to be run. They've done an incredibly good job to bring team harmony back to a team that had been fractured by the problems it had before.
"If Lotus was, on a scale of minus ten to plus ten, at minus eight because of the problems it had before Genii Capital came in and now it's plus five, six or even seven, what we're doing is topping it off to make sure they get to the Championship. That has two key elements: technology and sponsorship revenue and that's basically what we're bringing to the table."
Such is Ijaz's confidence in the team that he proclaimed: "We'll be number one in 12 months. I say it simply, flatly, completely - we'll be number one in 12 months."
"We looked at three other teams before we decided on Lotus. I won't mention which ones but we had general discussions and in some cases very specific discussions.
"There were two things missing in the other teams we looked at. The first was the element of real team spirit, meaning across the board - vertically as well as horizontally - in terms of the breadth and depth of the team's capacity - its interconnectedness. I just didn't see that in any of the other teams that we looked at.
"The second element was the business brains that run Genii Capital and the business brains that affect the way in which Lotus is managed as a business; these are men cut from the same cloth as I have been throughout my career.
"There was a congruency in the way we thought the business ought to be run. They've done an incredibly good job to bring team harmony back to a team that had been fractured by the problems it had before.
"If Lotus was, on a scale of minus ten to plus ten, at minus eight because of the problems it had before Genii Capital came in and now it's plus five, six or even seven, what we're doing is topping it off to make sure they get to the Championship. That has two key elements: technology and sponsorship revenue and that's basically what we're bringing to the table."
Such is Ijaz's confidence in the team that he proclaimed: "We'll be number one in 12 months. I say it simply, flatly, completely - we'll be number one in 12 months."
