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Lotus F1 Team have become the third team to reveal their car for the 2015 Formula One World Championship. The team revealed a set of computer generated renderings of their car on their website and Twitter earlier today.<\/p>\n
Lotus technical director Nick Chester described the car, which is powered by a Mercedes hybrid V6 Turbo for the first time in the team\u2019s history, as \u2018a massive step forward\u2019 from last year.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s no secret that we struggled with last year\u2019s car so we’ve targeted every area that caused us an issue,\u201d he said. \u201cWe’ve made strong progress in the wind tunnel as well as in areas such as packaging and cooling. We expect the E23 to perform far, far better than its predecessor.\u201d<\/p>\n
Chester said the new power unit \u201clooks to be the one area of the car which could bring us the greatest performance gain. It\u2019s not just performance, but reliability and driveability as well as packaging and cooling too,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n
The car, which will \u00a0be driven by the team\u2019s unchanged line-up of Romain Grosjean and Pastor Maldonado, features a modification of their livery from last year along with the loss of it\u2019s unique twin-tusk front nose as a result of the new regulations imposed by the FIA for this season. However, Chester also noted that the banning of interconnected front-rear suspension had also made life difficult for the team when designing the E23.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were delivered something of a blow last year when the front-rear interconnected suspension was outlawed mid-season,\u201d he said. \u201cThe E23\u2019s suspension design is specific to the updated regulations so we\u2019re not trying to update a system originally intended to work a different way.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe learnt a lot in many areas of the car over the course of 2014 so there are many lessons which have been applied. We know we\u2019ve made a big step. We won\u2019t know how our car will fare in relative terms until we\u2019re out in action at a grand prix, but we certainly expect to be much more competitive than last year.\u201d<\/p>\n
The team\u2019s chief executive officer Matthew Carter expressed his hopes of a return to form for the Lotus squad, who prior to their disappointing season last year had been one of the quickest cars in 2013; taking 14 podiums including 1 win at the opening race of the season.<\/p>\n
“We are full of optimism going into the new season. It is time to put the disappointment of last season behind us and benefit from 12 months of hard work; we are ready to return to our rightful place at the pinnacle of the sport.”<\/p>\n
McLaren are the next scheduled team to unveil their 2015 car on Thursday 29th January followed by the launch of the 2015 Ferrari SF15-T the day after. Pre-season testing then gets under-way on Sunday 1st of February at the Jerez circuit in Spain.<\/p>\n
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