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Lotus expecting no problems ahead of second test
13 February, 2013 James Allison with Alan Permane
Lotus are confident next week's second pre-season test in Barcelona will see no repeat of the failure that halted the Formula One team's efforts at the Spanish track a year ago.
Then, as this year, Kimi Raikkonen and Romain Grosjean had looked quick in the first test in Jerez only for an unexpected problem with the chassis to surface when they got to the Circuit de Catalunya.
The team had to pull out of that 2012 test and return to the factory after Grosjean had done seven laps.
'We had a problem last year because we designed a single joint poorly. We had created a suspension mounting which was capable of withstanding the loads if it had...
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