Lotus insist that they are making ‘strong progress’ with their new car, the Renault-powered E22, despite it completing just 111 laps - the fewest of any car, except Marussia’s MR03 - on its official debut in Bahrain last week.“Certainly, we started from a position very far from where we want to be,” explained Lotus’s technical director Nick Chester in an interview on the team’s official website. “On the first day (in Sakhir) we completed a mere seven laps, then 18, then next 26, and 59 by the final day, so we are heading in the right direction in terms of track time - and time on the track is what we need to understand and develop the...
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