Team Lotus T128 Renault

[Formula None]

That pic makes me wonder... If brake cooling fans were legal, would they be desirable (low speed cooling)? Would you house them in the upright or in the body with ducting through or attached to the suspension arms?

[awizul]

Tony tweets :

"Latest on Team Lotus car. Things going well. All glitches on water leaks solved. Hopefully we will have 4 days of good running. New wing coming"

[H. Zedozil]

Tony tweets :

"Latest on Team Lotus car. Things going well. All glitches on water leaks solved. Hopefully we will have 4 days of good running. New wing coming"

Yup....new front wing is coming!!...

[eniQma]

Tony tweets :

"Latest on Team Lotus car. Things going well. All glitches on water leaks solved. Hopefully we will have 4 days of good running. New wing coming"

Yup....new front wing is coming!!...

awesome!

btw H. Zedozil (as i always saw you at Team Lotus FB)
what do you think about TL T128 progress right now?
what do you about T128 pace?

[H. Zedozil]

Tony tweets :

"Latest on Team Lotus car. Things going well. All glitches on water leaks solved. Hopefully we will have 4 days of good running. New wing coming"

Yup....new front wing is coming!!...

awesome!

btw H. Zedozil (as i always saw you at Team Lotus FB)
what do you think about TL T128 progress right now?
what do you about T128 pace?

Well, I'm not the right person to ask actually. I'm not the expert.. Hope other pro members can help you answer that question or you can also read previous post but all I know...it is WAAYY better and faster than the T127

BTW about the Lotus's pace, I think it is hard to tell where would Team Lotus be right now, with the reliability issues during the testing. But I'm pretty sure they are close to the midfield teams.

[f1gang]

Gascoyne: “We have quite a new parts for Bahrain with a totally completely new front wing. Then, there will be development race by race but we are planning a big update probably for Barcelona” http://ellincedelpaddock.com/entrevistagascoyne-en.pdf
AWESOME!!

[horse]

...but we are planning a big update probably for Barcelona

I hope that update has some KERS in it.

[H. Zedozil]

Team Lotus's mew website is up and running: http://www.teamlotus.co.uk

Team Lotus steering wheel comparison

2010 T127's

2011 T127's


Number 20 - RED Button Spare button (KERS button? - it is not a good position though)

Full specification here: http://www.teamlotus.co.uk/cars/the-steering-wheel

[CHT]

Number 20 - RED Button Spare button (KERS button? - it is not a good position though)

Full specification here: http://www.teamlotus.co.uk/cars/the-steering-wheel

I believe they will somply switch the wires and move the KERS button near the thumb position when their KERS is ready.

[dren]

The car should qualify outside of Q1 which will be a plus. I think Force India has moved a bit back, or I would say didn't move as far forward as the others. Without KERS, the Lotus is going to have issues off the start negating a lot of the boost they got for qualifying. Hopefully they will get it soon so they can retain their qualifying positions easier. I see this car capable of a few points this year.

[forty-two]

Personally, I suspect that KERS will be on two paddles behind the steering wheel, like McLaren did in 2009.

Just because that button isn't labelled, doesn't mean it isn't doing anything. What if Team Lotus have designed a hyperspace button for example?

[ESPImperium]

I have always thought that all the non KERS cars should have an engine overboost function where the engine RPM is lifted for 10 seconds a lap as a cheaper option to them if they either cant afford to use it or hav chosen not to use it for packaging concerns.

I think Team Lotus will be running KERS for Turkey/Barcelona as the would ideally want to have a few races under their belt for relyability purposes.

[axle]

I have always thought that all the non KERS cars should have an engine overboost function where the engine RPM is lifted for 10 seconds a lap as a cheaper option to them if they either cant afford to use it or hav chosen not to use it for packaging concerns.

I think Team Lotus will be running KERS for Turkey/Barcelona as the would ideally want to have a few races under their belt for relyability purposes.

If you did that, no one would use KERS. KERS has to be an advantage to get teams to spend money on hybrid technologies for the benefit of the consumer. I wish they'd double the storeable amount and extend it's use window to 12secs.

[ESPImperium]

Id like to see the engine overboost, but id make it that KERS was a advantage, say allow 15 seconds of it to say 8 seconds of overboost that the non KERS runners would have. The KERS can be used thrughout the lap, where the overboost can only be used a single time for example. But you would have your DRS anyways.

[aral]

Team Lotus's mew website is up and running: http://www.teamlotus.co.uk

Team Lotus steering wheel comparison

2010 T127's

2011 T127's


Number 20 - RED Button Spare button (KERS button? - it is not a good position though)

Full specification here: http://www.teamlotus.co.uk/cars/the-steering-wheel

Look at the old wheel. There is a switch there, marked "start 2". So maybe it is just a button replacing a switch? Or maybe it is the rear wing actification switch? It could be absolutely anything, so there is little point getting worked up about it.