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F1 2013 – Lotus: You don’t just lose 1.5s of pace

Lotus team principal Eric Boullier has told autosport he hopes his team’s performance at the 2013 Canadian grand prix was a one off and that you don’t just lose 1.5s of pace between race to race.'This is a very specific track, and with our car we could just not switch the tyres on, it does not help as well when it is cold and it is wet.'Our pace was not so bad with Romain Grosjean in practice but, if you look at the race, we were 1.5 seconds slower than Red Bull and Mercedes.'You do not lose 1.5 seconds from one race to another one. It is just that something went wrong.'We have some good developments coming for Silverstone, so that should help us keep up and close the gap to the leader...
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