Lotus take off the covers to their 2010 car
Lotus unwrapped the car that will return an iconic name to F1 today, the team has completed a brief shakedown of the car at Silverstone so it works and they are scheduled to join all the other teams for the third test in Jerez next week.
The car looks very business like without some of the more refined aero features that we’ve seen from the other teams, I guess that reflects the limited time that they’ve had to build the car. The classic Livery is back however so it seems.
It’s great that another one of the new teams has actually delivered on building and lanuching a car, I have the same hopes for them as I did for Virgin, just to be on the back of the pack – perhaps even beat them once in a while. That will surely be the aim of Lotus initially anyway.
With Jarno Trulli and Heikki Kovalainen they have the strongest partnership in the teams around them and so I’d expect that to be a big boost for Lotus and worth a lot of development time. At least when it gets to Grand Prix we’ll see what the car can really do as i suspect the initial testing won’t tell us the full potential of the car though it might show whether it’s got any at all.
Watch this space next week to find out if they can put in the times and beat Virgin at the test.
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