Lotus E22 Pre-launch Speculation

[acosmichippo]

LOL,it took years for me to notice that "Burn" is one of their sponsors.


Also, all the guys around rear end of the car are wearing gloves. Hot, hot, hot.

the gloves are for electrical insulation from all of the new electrical devices.

[aircooledtwin]

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[Owen.C93]

Personally I hate the black, red, cream color scheme.

[miguelalvesreis]

LOL,it took years for me to notice that "Burn" is one of their sponsors.


Also, all the guys around rear end of the car are wearing gloves. Hot, hot, hot.

The gloves seem to be electrical insulation, probably due to the ERS

[Racer X]

The Lotus plan to wait and not go to Jerez is a good strategy for all Renault team while Renault has not been allowed to do proper testing they have given Lotus updated equipment and it ran perfectly the allowed promotions running time. So at least now the other Renault teams can be given this same equipment and I'm sure this will mean Red bull catches up and to Ferrari and Mercedes. I'm sure Red Bull will be fine but.

I can see Lotus more then capable of out doing Or matching Red Bull tho we will see where Renault stands.....

[Pup]

In the end, it may turn out to have been fortuitous that Lotus missed the test, but let's not confuse that with a 'strategy'.

[Racer X]

That's true I agree but it was a strategy for Lotus. Fortunate for Reanult..

[stefan_]

In the end, it may turn out to have been fortuitous that Lotus missed the test, but let's not confuse that with a 'strategy'.

True that. Not going to the test was probably 50-60% budget-related, but I think they also knew something that made them take this decision much easier because you don't speak about how testing in 2014 will be very important and then not go to the few days of testing you have in a year. I think if they really wanted to test, they could have take part - it's not like Lotus are a bunch of hobos with an F1 car laying around.
(As a side note, financial problems in a big company are different from financial problems in a household, which people tend to make the parallel with)

With everyone bashing and writing them off, this one just might have played in their advantage.

[turbof1]

It might be less budget related then assumed. They hired off Jerez on their own, had to stand in for the part of logistics that otherwise would be shared among teams, etc. The 2 days promotional event could easily costed them more then the 4 day test.

[Jonnycraig]

In the end, it may turn out to have been fortuitous that Lotus missed the test, but let's not confuse that with a 'strategy'.

Potentially, but then Horner said the RB10 was only 'ready' the night before the Jerez test. If Lotus knee they were going to be cutting it fine to make the test, then taking an extra week and getting the engine feedback from the other Renault teams could easily have been planned.

[Richard]

We've now got pics of the car, so don't need this thread anymore

Car http://www.f1technical.net/forum/viewto ... 12&t=17683

Team talk http://www.f1technical.net/forum/viewto ... 15&t=17552