Current Lotus (formerly Renault)

Well that's true as well.

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Well they may just be pulling out for the hell of it, they might have a teeny weeny problem, or they might have a massive one.We dont know, but hey, its the off season, not too much to talk about. And i still have a problem calling them Lotus.
Oh and ive found out another bit of gossip. Kimi wasnt down to test any days of that Barcelona test. I wonder why that was?Maybe he had a very bad hangoversorry

Sorry Racecub. In the interests of fun, I'm going to play your game.

After a few days testing it has become apparent to Lotus that they are so much faster than everyone that they won't be able to hide it on track and so have decided to go home and hide it in the garage.

Are you sure about that

hmm ok lets apply that logic elsewhere shall we: 20% of the world's population don't have enough to eat and 20% of the world population eats too much - simple answer? share the food out equally. Right we know the problem and we know the answer so we can impliment it and problem solved right? oh crap yes how do we do it!

Big difference between knowing how to fix something and actually fixing it I'm afraid. We shall wait and see. I'm slightly dissapointed if I'm honest I wanted Lotus to show me they weren't just showboating at the first test and they were going to be up there.

Oh and lets remember to take press releases with a pinch of salt - there is noway any team is going to say anything else but what Boullier did when they have this problem - no one is actually going to come out to the meida and go "We haven't a clue whats going on! The whole cars falling apart! The sponsors will want their money back and we're all doomed! doomed i tell ye!"

Alternatively - let the 20% starve and the other 20% overeat themselves to death: result = 40% less overall population and more food to go around for the rest of us!

Simples...

Not the most humanitarian of solutions though RoB

Hmm - I could argue along Darwinian lines that by allowing those unable to feed themselves to starve, and those too ignorant and greedy to moderate their intake to stuff themselves to death, you actually end up with a fitter species as a whole...

I'll get me coat...

Let's do away with medicine too. That'll strengthen the human gene pool.

I''m sure he's the best person to trust and he's probably right - however if they couldn't fix the problem - or more importantly couldn't fix the problem without creating more issues for the design - would he actually say it in a press release or would he pretty much say excatly the same as he has there?

I think the point I'm making is firstly missing a whole test session is not good for them and solving one problem without creating another is pretty hard in F1. Whichever way you look at it there is a massive blow for them and this cheery "oh its nothing" stuff we're hearing out of the Lotus camp is a front.

Still I'm guessing it'll be a great excuse when Kimi pulls over to the side of the road in a big puff of smoke in Australia

Nope not sure. I saw this coment and pondered on it....the comment after the video clip
http://notepad.badgergp.com/lotus-withdraw-from-barcelona-testing

So they're not certain about the cause. Not exactly a confidence inspiring statement.

Lotus are completely confident that they know the cause.
Autosport believe from their "sources" that the problem was related to the front suspension
In short Autosport have no more idea than we do what the problem was.

I heard the engine mount wasn't good enough and came loose or broke.

I heard it was the engine mount too

Yet another Red Bull driver bigging up Lotus chances

http://www.gpupdate.net/en/f1-news/276158/webber-expecting-lotus-threat-at-sepang/

Vettel was at it all pre-season. Makes me wonder why - especially when you think that Kimi's fastest lap was 1.6 seconds off the pace. Do they really think they'll jump up that far?

So, lotus have cancelled their sponsorship with the Lotus team, which means that all the battles which occurred last year are a little meaningless. We have a lotus team which now has nothing to do with group lotus (or team lotus). We had caterham, which used to be team lotus, which used to be lotus.... The Malaysian owners of lotus really are real muppets!

So does that mean they'll be something else next year then? Is a title sponsor waiting to swoop in? Lets just call it a Benneton and have done with eh?

Although I've always thought the Coca-Cola livery would look good on and F1 car if they fancied swooping in at the top. Or how about Burger King Racing? or McF1?