Lotus E21 Renault

[iotar__]

Permane
“Romain ran the Device in the morning in order to gather more data, which we did, but there is no plan to run it for the rest of the weekend as any potential benefit is only marginal at this track"
Mystery solved.

[Huntresa]

Are you forgetting that Lotus said both packages were pretty much the same in terms of speed over a lap.

You better look at Grosjean car this afternoon

What should i look at ? That he didnt run DDRS ? No surprise there... What i said Lotus said was the package was as good as the other package, and this was around Silverstone, we know and they know DDRS wont be as beneficial everywhere.

[Blackout]

Looks like the FW's cascades (the 'peace one day' cascades) are not connected to the front wing's main plane anymore. they're only supported by the endplates. The teems may be wants them to be fexible ?
http://f1.f-e-n.net/images/f1/2013/2013 ... 7T8231.jpg

They added two cooling outlets to the new bodywork
http://f1.f-e-n.net/images/f1/2013/2013 ... 0C1892.jpg

[abw]

I give up. I cannot see any changes to the suspension, and I never fully understood what was supposedly illegal about it in the first place. Would some kind soul please direct me to illustrative before/after photos? Thanks.

[Kansas]

why did they covered up the air slots on engine cover??

should provide more airflow and feed the diffuser with the enclosed bodywork.

[wrcsti]

Less drag than fancy ductwork would create

[stefan_]

DRD gone from Grosjean's car today in FP3 (and I presume the same will be for qualifying and race), both cars are running the new rear (slimmer) bodywork.


photo via Lotus F1™ Team

[anzx]

Lotus looks strong this weekend, +0.3 behind RedBulls

[abw]

Looks like the FW's cascades (the 'peace one day' cascades) are not connected to the front wing's main plane anymore. they're only supported by the endplates. The teems may be wants them to be fexible ?
http://f1.f-e-n.net/images/f1/2013/2013 ... 7T8231.jpg

Feed showed a slow-mo with the cascade flexing quite a bit on RG during Q2.

[Kansas]

i seriously doubt any recent upgrades brought us back into the game.

so far:

we seems to be fairly competitive on front limited cirucit as E21 has strong front end.

we also seems to be competitive over 1 lap when soft compound was there for the taking.

Just show how much faster we could've been if the tyre works in every gp for Lotus.

[wesley123]

Kansas I didnt know you worked for LRGP!

[Blackout]

Updates maybe helped Lotus to hang on the front runners or even reduce the real gap, mr Kansas.
Car's top speed decreased relatively a lot since they brought the new bodywork; maybe that means the latter is helping the rear wing produce more downforce ?

I give up. I cannot see any changes to the suspension, and I never fully understood what was supposedly illegal about it in the first place. Would some kind soul please direct me to illustrative before/after photos? Thanks.

[Kansas]

i believe we were 1 sec++ off the pole sitter in silverstone eventhough romain was fitted with the new bodywork??

now we were 5 tenth off the pace.

huge gain no matter how you look at it. The track nature and tyre allocation helped us massively.

My point is, there will be more performance found if the team manage to sort out their tyre heating issues.

[stefan_]

Germany 2013 - Saturday (06.07.2013)



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[abw]

Thanks Blackout. That's a pretty subtle change. Not likely to be obvious in any photo.