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Lotus E20 Renault

Team: James Allison (TD), Naoki Tokunaga (DTD), Tim Densham (CD), Dirk De Beer (HA), Gerard Lopez (Chairman), Eric Boullier (TP), Patrick Louis (COO), John Mardle (OD), Steve Nielsen (SD), Alan Permane (CRE)
Drivers: Kimi Räikkönen (9), Romain Grosjean (10)

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Lotus E20 Renault

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Looking forward to the Condoleeza rice exhausts.
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Don't want to say to much yet, but it allreday looks like a "unique" interpetation (small room for doing anything exceptionally different I guess). They have thought this one thru... I hope!
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I wonder how this will effect their tyre performance, they were not keen about cooler weather for this weekend, but that might not be the problem anymore?
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Hmm yet again they will test DRD (look shape of cooling exit)...
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compare to this i think Suzuka pic

http://motorsport.nextgen-auto.com/gall ... medium.jpg
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I think they wil concentrate more on the new exhaust.
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But anyway strange is that they keep the small "mokey seat wiglet"... Interesting to see how will they use the coling exit...
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aleksandergreat wrote:But anyway strange is that they keep the small "mokey seat wiglet"... Interesting to see how will they use the coling exit...
Why wouldnt they keep the small monkey seat? Its been there way before the DDRS.
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Huntresa wrote:
aleksandergreat wrote:But anyway strange is that they keep the small "mokey seat wiglet"... Interesting to see how will they use the coling exit...
Why wouldnt they keep the small monkey seat? Its been there way before the DDRS.
Beacuse of DRD... look the engine cover and cooling exit...

here without DRD

http://www.formula1.com/wi/enlarge/1140 ... sin158.jpg
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http://motorsport.nextgen-auto.com/gall ... medium.jpg

and here today picture with coanda
http://motorsportgp.pl/images/motorspor ... 12-025.jpg precisely look the shape of cooling exit it seem to me it has huge break in the middle...
http://shrani.si/f/28/d4/KIyP4WY/grand- ... zwarte.jpg
In my opinion that corespondet to DRD duct assembly... Maybe i m wrong but i m prety sure....

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alogoc wrote:higer res
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They look like the Red Bull solution. Not sure if it really is, but it has the same ramp.
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Slightly different angle.

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turbof1 wrote:They look like the Red Bull solution. Not sure if it really is, but it has the same ramp.
Looks like the solution everyone but Red Bull is using.
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