Lotus requests a week delay of first 2014 Formula 1 test at Jerez 11 December, 2013 Lotus has requested that the first official test of the 2014 preseason, at Jerez late in January, be postponed for a week. That is the news of Speed Week correspondent Mathias Brunner, reporting that the financially-struggling Enstone based team asked for the postponement early this week at the Formula 1 Commission meeting in Paris. It was already known that, despite every team being invited to test next year's Pirelli tyres with 2013 cars next week in Bahrain, Lotus was not among those who took up the offer. And now, it emerges that the black and gold-liveried team is struggling to be ready for the start...
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