2014 Lotus E22

[Chris Brand]

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]

Yeh I saw Scarbs explain it on Twitter earlier

 

[Howard]

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

Sorry what?

 

[ufunacaoenn]

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[Howard]

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]

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]

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]

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

 

[Qazdar Karim]

The nose is made to prevent front cars from pulling away

 

[Ho3n3r]

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.

 

[Sun Levi]

 

[Dávid Dzema]

Lotus 2014 steering wheel.

 

[Jimlaad43]

 

[Jimlaad43]

Note the Autosport mag headline...

 

[Dmitry Zaharov]

 

[Chris Jenkins]

So is that it? Is that their launch?
No presentation or news anywhere?

 

[Chris Brand]

That is a very very unfinished car......

 

[Chris Jenkins]

That is a very very unfinished car......

Yep.
Illegal front wing, illegal beam wing, no brake ducts, no turning vanes, barge boards, etc.
Looks like a cheap show car replica.

 

[Dmitry Zaharov]

Lotus E22 completed all allowed 100km during second filming day without major problems according to some reports.

 

[f1superracer]

The car in the picture (With the man standing next to it)isn't the E22 it's believed to the 2005 Renault with some bits from the E22.