Lotus will not run for the remainder of this week’s second pre-season test at Barcelona following the issue experienced with the team’s second E20 chassis when it was shaken down for the first time by Romain Grosjean on Tuesday morning.
After discovering the problem, Lotus had initially planned to bring the first E20 chassis - which successfully completed the first Jerez test - to Spain for the remainder of the week, but that plan was abandoned after further investigation at their UK base.
“We ran a series of simulations at the factory based on the data provided by our brief running on track today. As a result, we were able to identify an area which requires some additional work,” explained technical director James Allison.
“It will be more productive for us to carry out these modifications to both chassis at Enstone rather than send E20-01 out to this week’s test. We’ll put the right measures in place and we will be able to fix the problem before next week.”
It means Lotus will not be back on track until the final pre-season test in Barcelona on March 1-4, a serious setback to their 2012 preparations ahead of the season opening Australian Grand Prix on March 18
Defending world champion Sebastian Vettel topped the timesheets for Red Bull as this week’s four-day test got underway at Barcelona’s Circuit de Catalunya on Tuesday. Vettel’s best, a 1m 23.265s, was over a tenth of a second faster than the quickest lap from second-placed runner Nico Hulkenberg in the Force India.
Stay tuned for further info from this weeks testing
After discovering the problem, Lotus had initially planned to bring the first E20 chassis - which successfully completed the first Jerez test - to Spain for the remainder of the week, but that plan was abandoned after further investigation at their UK base.
“We ran a series of simulations at the factory based on the data provided by our brief running on track today. As a result, we were able to identify an area which requires some additional work,” explained technical director James Allison.
“It will be more productive for us to carry out these modifications to both chassis at Enstone rather than send E20-01 out to this week’s test. We’ll put the right measures in place and we will be able to fix the problem before next week.”
It means Lotus will not be back on track until the final pre-season test in Barcelona on March 1-4, a serious setback to their 2012 preparations ahead of the season opening Australian Grand Prix on March 18
Defending world champion Sebastian Vettel topped the timesheets for Red Bull as this week’s four-day test got underway at Barcelona’s Circuit de Catalunya on Tuesday. Vettel’s best, a 1m 23.265s, was over a tenth of a second faster than the quickest lap from second-placed runner Nico Hulkenberg in the Force India.
Stay tuned for further info from this weeks testing
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