Lotus E20 Renault

[Gui59]

It's a R31 (except exhausts layout from R30) + E20 nose. We will see the real E20 tomorrow at Jerez.

[JohnsonsEvilTwin]

4th is quite a Resonable target for them. I doubt if they can get anywhere near 4th.

[munudeges]

Now that's how to handle a stepped nose. As another esteemed member of this forum once said, if it looks wrong........

I think a few of us questioned the front exhausts because the diffuser was obviously much further away from the exhausts, but, if they could have worked at it and created a powerful enough effect it really would have been the direction to go in. It was no coincidence that the R31 was the car Red Bull were sending people down to watch during last season's testing. This team might be run by a bunch of monkeys but technically they are still pretty good.

[Blackout]

Talking about sidepods... The R31 had one of the fattest sidepods among the modern f1 cars (because of the particular exhausts and the particulair cooling outlets). But with this ''new'' car, it's still the case. They are almost identical... Caterham sidepods are much closer to Redbull'S and are much tighter compared to this 'E20'.

[FrukostScones]

they are censoring the negative youtube comments, those PE guys

[ell66]

dont see much difference, why are the intakes so large though? compare them to caterhams and red bulls with the same engine.

The rear looks a bit tighter but ill wait till i see more pics, looks like a battle for 5th to me, i fancy force india to do very well this year.

[Gui59]

They might have chosen big inlet to use the space left by the exhausts to bring more air to the top of the diffuser.

[Gui59]

If you use this link you will go on their website properly:
http://www.lotusf1team.com/e20.html

[matervam]

bad car...worst organized event...no hi-res pfotos...what have they done all this time

[zoro_f1]

i said [before] that the site has the simillar problem like ferrari. no one team has a 1.000 server's to serve the guest's. it is normal for being shut down their site because of a lot of hits by the users in the same time. 5 milion hits in one or two second's is a lot of hits.

bad car...worst organized event...no hi-res pfotos...what have they done all this time

[bhall]

Say what you will, but Lotus did a really good job of capturing the feel of a strip club with the launch of the E20.

[raymondu999]

I wouldn't know what that feels like. I swear.

[bhall]

Aww, poor thing.

[zoro_f1]

it's a really nice car for me but we will see it on testing how will be driveable

[King Six]

The more I look. Lotus have the softest step. How did they do that, is their bulkhead not the maximum? Or is it just a combination of livery and camera angle