An Italian design company has been ordered by a British court to pay Force India $ 39,500 . Aerolab used the team 's intellectual property while designing the 2010 Lotus , now Caterham . The case is being heard in London and it could be settled as early as next week. The Honorable Mr Justice Arnold held that Aerolab 's CAD designers had misused certain of Force India 's confidential information as a means of taking a 'short cut ' to produce a wind tunnel model which could begin to be used for testing as soon as possible . The marque intend to refer the incident to motorsport 's global governing body .
An Italian design company has been ordered by a British court to pay Force India $ 39,500 . Aerolab used the team 's intellectual property while designing the 2010 Lotus , now Caterham . The case is being heard in London and it could be settled as early as next week. The marque intend to refer the incident to motorsport 's global governing body .