Lotus has confirmed it will not debut its new car at the first pre-season test in Jerez at the end of January. Whilst Lotus technical director Nick Chester confirmed the majority of the E22's crash tests had been completed, he added that attending Jerez wouldn't fit their development programme. "We've made very good progress with the various homologation tests which took place before Christmas including chassis squeeze and side impact loading tests as well as the rear crash structure, meaning we just have the nose test to complete the car’s homologation." However, he confimed that the car, which will be driven by Romain Grosjean and Pastor Maldonado, will not be present at...
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