2014 Lotus E22

Chris Brand · Jan 24, 2014

Tr3voRR said:
I'll give you Maldonado, but Grosjean is a very very good driver' Which pilot never had or created an accident ?! Schumi was at fault in Monaco and how he destroyed Vergne in singapore... far worse than what Grosjean did ! Anyways, these new nose :S... also Bouillet is now at Mclaren and he will most likely be the one to replace witmarsh (sorry I may have destroyed his name).

Grosjean has never done anything?! Ummm Spa turn 1 2012 springs to my mind?! Apart from almost ripping Alonso's head off with a F1 car but hey ho nothing serious! *Boullier *Whitmarsh. It's not confirmed that Boullier is at McLaren, only speculation. All that has been confirmed is that he has left Lotus.

Chris Jenkins · Jan 24, 2014

Yeh I saw Scarbs explain it on Twitter earlier

Howard · Jan 24, 2014

Georgios Davakos said:
Expect Lotus to have the highest top speed if they keep the front tip of the car like that.

Sorry what?

ufunacaoenn · Jan 24, 2014

Howard · Jan 24, 2014

Georgios Davakos said:
The more area you have, the more drag you create.
From the 3D rendered pic it seems that the cars area (from a horizontal point of view) starts to expand just after the attachments to the front wing, compared to the Mclaren who seems to expand a bit earlier.
The only big problem is that we can't see how the car is constructed underneath close to the wing so I could be totally wrong.

Oh I see what you mean. I thought the same when I first saw the render. Perhaps it feeds down from there into the splitter?

Samuel Fuller · Jan 24, 2014

I dont understand why they have shown there hand when they are missing the first test so could keep it under wraps for longer.

Chris Jenkins · Jan 24, 2014

Samuel Fuller said:
I dont understand why they have shown there hand when they are missing the first test so could keep it under wraps for longer.

Seems like more of a gesture to convince people that they're not struggling. And also to take the focus away from all their top staff leaving

Guus · Jan 25, 2014

maldonado is going to have some good fun with that pitchfork mounted on his car

Qazdar Karim · Jan 25, 2014

The nose is made to prevent front cars from pulling away

Ho3n3r · Jan 27, 2014

Mark Aalberts said:
Its a digital rendering, i guess the moddler was a bit tyred doing the nose. Dont think the actual nose tips on the real car is going to have this offset, there is realy no point doing that.

They have something to explain if they do.

In order to meet the single lower nose tip regulation, the two tusks are of unequal length, so the longer one forms the mandatory nose tip, while the other is short enough to avoid being considered part of the nose tip by the regulations.