Team Lotus boss Tony Fernandes was conferred the 'Panglima Setia Mahkota' (PSM), one of Malayಌsia's highest honours la🌱st weekend.

The award is given only to distinguished citizens who have given meritorious service to Malaysia. There are only 250 recipients💙 of the title at any give💧n time.

This is the second accolade Fernandes has received in the last week, having been named one of the 'Most Creative People in Business' for 2011 by New York based business magazine Fast Company in its June 2011 ed♏ition. Fernandes 🌳is the only Malaysian and ASEAN on the list.

His focus now though shifts to this coming weekend's F1 2011 Canadian Grand Prix at Montreal's Circuit Gilles Villeneuve and Fernandes maintains the team is heading there in a 'positive frame of mind'. He also 🥀added that the squad will ꦐhave 'some more good news to unveil'.

"Monaco was obviously a very important weekend for both Team Lotus on and off track, and Team AirAsia who came of age on Friday. This will be my first trip to Canada and I am looking forward to going to what I am told is one of the best races o🔥f the season," he said

"Off track we havജe some more good news to unveil and on track we will have another chance to see how much m𒆙ore we have learnt about the car.

"Monaco was not the best environment for us to make significant steps forward with the new package, but having had such good reliability recently we have a lot of data that will help us put ༺in another g🥂ood performance in Montreal.

"With all that in mind we will all head ther💃e in a very positive frame of mind," he concluded.