Lotus say they're in much better shape now after their difficult start to the season, with Pastor Maldonado hailing "a big step forward" at the end of testing in Barcelona.Team-mate Romain Grosjean underlined the Enstone team's recent progress by scoring their first points of the season in last weekend's Spanish GP and they also ended the post-race test at the top of the timesheet with Maldonado behind the wheel. Far more importantly for Lotus, though, were the 102 laps the Venezuelan managed to complete on Wednesday. He described the outing as "my first normal day of testing this season" - the team's E22 having completed less running than any of its rivals pre-season....
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