2012 Lotus E20

[Kennett Ylitalo]

Nice detail on the upper wishbone connection, even the boltends are streamlined...

 

[Hampus Andersson]

hmm, interesting cooling outlet below the main cooling outlet.
Or is that the starter hole? Possibly both?

Good point Kennett, this is why i love F1 details, details, details

 

[Ole Marius Myrvold]

Oh. Just picked up the news that Lotus has terminated the "sponsorhip" with Lotus. Though, Lotus didn't really sponsor Lotus, they just had the name there. Lotus decided that having Lotus on the car, without getting money, was a waste of space on the car. So Lotus contacted Lotus, and got out of the contract. That means that Lotus no longer have the possibility to buy 50% of Lotus. Though, Lotus will still keep the Lotus name, though they are not sponsored or owned in any way by Lotus. This is because the feel the Lotus name will help them get sponsors. Even though they are not connected to Lotus.

This whole Lotus thing is as bad as LOLA's effort in 97!

 

[ufunacaoenn]

Oh. Just picked up the news that Lotus has terminated the "sponsorhip" with Lotus. Though, Lotus didn't really sponsor Lotus, they just had the name there. Lotus decided that having Lotus on the car, without getting money, was a waste of space on the car. So Lotus contacted Lotus, and got out of the contract. That means that Lotus no longer have the possibility to buy 50% of Lotus. Though, Lotus will still keep the Lotus name, though they are not sponsored or owned in any way by Lotus. This is because the feel the Lotus name will help them get sponsors. Even though they are not connected to Lotus.

This whole Lotus thing is as bad as LOLA's effort in 97!

And what will the be called next season? (Ford without any kind of sponsorship from Ford?)

 

[Ole Marius Myrvold]

And what will the be called next season? (Ford without any kind of sponsorship from Ford?)

They said they would continue with the Lotus name.

 

[Markus Neumann]

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/98628

http://www.jamesallenonf1.com/2012/04/new-twist-in-lotus-saga-as-lopez-confirms-group-lotus-split/

As of now, this story has officially ceased to make any sense to me whatsoever :eek:

 

[Dmitry Zaharov]

They said they would continue with the Lotus name.

Yeah, for whatever reason they think it could attract more sponsors. To be honest it seriously doubt that, it's not a major brand and times it had any weight are deep in the past. Making a nice promo of Group Lotus for no charge is not very clever too.

 

[Ole Marius Myrvold]

As of now, this story has officially ceased to make any sense to me whatsoever :eek:

Well, Lotus did help Genii with some debt, and they had an option to buy 50% of the team. But things might have change quite a bit.

There has also been talks in the market of a consortium of local banks, which includes CIMB Bank Bhd and Malayan Banking Bhd,​

having stopped lending money to Lotus due to its management’s inability to meet certain conditions in their loan agreements.​

So, the loans Danny Bahar said they would get... went where?

Thus far, the bankers have advanced Lotus as much as £200 million (RM976 million). It is understood that the decision to send in the two forensic teams was made last month after Proton’s management and Lotus’ top management team from Norwich were summoned to Kuala Lumpur to brief the new owner of Proton on what is happening in the company.​

Hups.

Business Times understands that separate teams from Ernst & Young (EY) and a unit from the influential Rothschild Group have been given the mandate to evaluate Lotus ​

and its management team​

.​

Ouch.

Source:

DRB-HICOM conducts due diligence on Lotus.​

 

[Hampus Andersson]

New front wing, pretty cool. (it was used in Bahrain so not new-new but just new)

OLD

NEW

 

[Kartik Sri Harsha]

New front wing, pretty cool. (it was used in Bahrain so not new-new but just new)

OLD

NEW

I've seen this on SaturdayFP3

 

[Hampus Andersson]

I've seen this on SaturdayFP3

China or Bahrain?

 

[Kartik Sri Harsha]

China or Bahrain?

In Round #4

 

[Chris Jenkins]

Front wings are looking more and more like diffusers

 

[Diego Lopez]

"peace one day"

it will never happen.

 

[Kennett Ylitalo]

I think this thread need a bumb...

Lotus F-Duct exits. It might be possible that they have third tunnel leading to starter hole above the diffuser. So the air get channeled more to the narrow channel and away from starter hole and the middle tunnel has constant ratio of air going thru it. If that is true then it has even more effect, in low speed the air gets channeled to act as doublediffuser sealing the air and at high speeds the rear wing is stalled but at the same time, diffuser returns to normal action... And this all without any moving parts and legal.

There is a theory that it still has some relation with DRS so that the small openings shown on the picture would activate with DRS but i don't think so.. With a third tunnel it gets more complex but it has certain logic in it then...

 

[Kennett Ylitalo]

The large main tunnel is very curved before the exit, that might act as a obestacle in high speed blocking some of the airflow so it gets' forced to the narrow L-channel... (is this then L-Duct?)

This is nice one, there a piece missing so we can see the channels more closely..

 

[Kennett Ylitalo]

the third tunnel, i have no other info than what was in somersf1.blogspot.com and that is almost month old info. Scarb didn't mention a third tunnel at all...

 

[Kennett Ylitalo]

I can't see a third tunnel, below the main tunnel it's clear to the floor.

 

[Hampus Andersson]

Coanda exhaust,