Lotus E22 Pre-launch Speculation

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Yes, the crash-structure's vertical section must be 78,26x115 50mm behind it's tip, in this case. But that structure can have a streamlined/drop-shape horizontal section IMO :!: :?:

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Lotus F1 Team ‏@Lotus_F1Team 6 Min.
If we can promise you one thing today... It's that our nose doesn't look like this. #E22 pic.twitter.com/ohG56rKzYQ
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F1Passion.it wrote: Ad anticipare qualcosa è il direttore di gara Charlie Whiting: “Non posso rivelare troppo, è ovvio”, ha dichiarato a BadgerGP.com in occasione dell’Autosport International Show. “Ma abbiamo visto un sacco soluzioni, strane rispetto ai precedenti standard. Ogni team sta facendo del suo meglio per superare lo svantaggio aerodinamico che ne deriva e così stanno venendo fuori idee diverse. Penso che si vedranno delle cose interessanti che un sacco di persone penseranno siano un po’ brutte e strane, ma sono sicuro che ci abitueremo”.
Anticipating this, is race director Charlie Whiting: "I cannot reveal too much, that's obvious," speaking to BadgerGp.com during the Autosport International Show. "We have seen tons of solutions, strange with respect to the previous standards. Each team is doing their best to eliminate the aero defeceit derived from this [lowering of the nose] and with that diverse ideas are coming out. I think that we will see some interesting things that a lot of people will think are ugly, but im sure that we will get used to it."

Basically, what we all have thought. Ugly noses with MANY different ideas. Doesnt look like he seems too bothered to veto any of the ones he has seen....

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She's alive ! *
Paul Seaby (Lotus F1 Team Race Team Manager) wrote:At 22.00 the E22 fired up..... All systems good!
https://mobile.twitter.com/Seabs/status ... 462016?p=v
*yes, it's a girl ^^

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Future generations will use this car to explain the camel toe.
#AeroFrodo

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"...and there, very much in flames, is Jacques Laffite's Ligier. That's obviously a turbo blaze, and of course, Laffite will be able to see that conflagration in his mirrors... he is coolly parking the car somewhere safe." Murray Walker, San Marino 1985

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Another source: (autosprint)
http://translate.google.com/translate?h ... rez/13083/

So they're planning tests after all, good. Why so early, why not wait for Renault to sort out their problems, maybe they won't get any updated engines anyway before Bahrain day 1, or maybe Renault wants to test something and "helped"? [Apart from obvious - check systems earlier to have time for corrections.]

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iotar__ wrote:Another source: (autosprint)
http://translate.google.com/translate?h ... rez/13083/

So they're planning tests after all, good. Why so early, why not wait for Renault to sort out their problems, maybe they won't get any updated engines anyway before Bahrain day 1, or maybe Renault wants to test something and "helped"? [Apart from obvious - check systems earlier to have time for corrections.]

or maybe they got some updated engine and are using this test to verify simulation results and check if some problems are gone

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skoop wrote:
iotar__ wrote:Another source: (autosprint)
http://translate.google.com/translate?h ... rez/13083/

So they're planning tests after all, good. Why so early, why not wait for Renault to sort out their problems, maybe they won't get any updated engines anyway before Bahrain day 1, or maybe Renault wants to test something and "helped"? [Apart from obvious - check systems earlier to have time for corrections.]

or maybe they got some updated engine and are using this test to verify simulation results and check if some problems are gone
That's what "or maybe Renault wants to test something and "helped" meant.

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"Dirty game" in the air? :D Interesting

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz0e6WHdlZ0[/youtube]

Meet you back here on Friday at 17:00 CET to find out what our F1 mechanic Chris is complaining about.

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McLaren rear wishbones?
Thank you really doesn't really describe enough what I feel. - Vettel

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AnthonyG wrote:McLaren rear wishbones?
Seems likely, the cooling arrangement reminds McLaren's too, so that is a possibility.

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timbo wrote:
AnthonyG wrote:McLaren rear wishbones?
Seems likely, the cooling arrangement reminds McLaren's too, so that is a possibility.
It has a beamwing. Must be last years car.