It’s been a tough few months for Lotus, losing star driver Kimi Raikkonen and team principal Eric Boullier, and then finding themselves massively on the back foot in winter testing, their race-winning form of 2013 notable by its absence. The breakthrough finally came in Spain on Sunday however, as Romain Grosjean ended an encouraging weekend by scoring the team’s first points of 2014. We spoke exclusively to chairman and team principal Eric Lopez…Q: Gerard, why the dramatic drop in form in 2014? From frontrunners to near backmarkers within months…Gerard Lopez: We are coming back up! Isn’t that obvious? We qualified fifth here and finished eighth in the race....
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