Lotus E20 Renault

[Crucial_Xtreme]

Few pics from today

[stefan_]

They had to change the gearbox on Kimi's car after FP2 -> 5 places grid penalty.

[dren]

Is that a mini cooler under the cylinders?

[hardingfv32]

Is that a mini cooler under the cylinders?

Looks like a electronic box held in place with a bolt on one corner.

Brian

[Blackout]

What part of the bodywork is this ? grey part's shape looks strange to me

[i70q7m7ghw]

Anyone noticed the car has u-pods?

[MIKEY_!]

Only really tiny ones, smaller even than Ferrari's.

[raymondu999]

Anyone noticed the car has u-pods?

Only really tiny ones, smaller even than Ferrari's.

It's not a u-pod. It's the reflection off the small sidepod crash structure "lip" that's catching you out.

[sriraj1031]

this car though looks unimpressive is bloody damn fast and faster than redbull too

[raymondu999]

Yeah. And ironically The A-spec Red Bull exhausts were similar to this.

[Owen.C93]

What part of the bodywork is this ? grey part's shape looks strange to me

One of the exhaust fairings I believe.

[AnthonyG]

Don't know what to think of this car after yesterday.
Most of the time it was half a second off-pace, but at the end they put down a fastest lap.
Also seemed very tricky to drive(stiff rear?).

[wrcsti]

Don't know what to think of this car after yesterday.
Most of the time it was half a second off-pace, but at the end they put down a fastest lap.
Also seemed very tricky to drive(stiff rear?).

Seems once a dry line formed it flew. Could be the stiff rear or raikonen not knowing the wet tires well as he said on an interview.

[Blackout]

Half a second ?

Three reasons at least
-KR not knowing the wet tires
-KR managing his tires when he was between the two RBR
-KERS problem

Our pace at the end of the race on dry tyres looks extremely promising from the perspective of both degradation and pace.

James Allison
Pace on hards looked already extremely promising during race sim in FP2

What part of the bodywork is this ? grey part's shape looks strange to me

One of the exhaust fairings I believe.

Yeah... but the shape still looks strange to me... the angle of that grey part... it looks almost perpendicular to the black part... could it be an internal bodywork ?

[tikavi]

Black part isn't a part of bodywork.