Formula 1 - Lotus: No Decision Yet On Exhaust Update ~ THE AUTOMOTIVE WORLD BLOG

Part of the updates that Lotus brought to Abu Dhabi, has been proven. The data for the exhaust update must however still be seen.

The new wing will remain on Lotus chassis

Lotus tested on Friday in Abu Dhabi new wing to the chassis of Romain Grosjean cars and an exhaust upgrade to Kimi Raikkonen's car. There is enough data had been collected to assess the latter, the team said. The additional wing to the chassis have already been shown to be helpful and are thus appropriate for the rest of the weekend on both cars.

"We are quite happy with where we are today," said chief race engineer Alan Permane. "We used to Kimi's race cars in the first practice session, an exhaust upgrade and have returned for the start of the second session of the standard setup." Then you have made a direct comparison, rather than as usual longer runs to take a lot of fuel and thus collected more data to provide a clear picture of where the team would be tomorrow, explained Permane.

Romain Grosjean, who rose from the first to the second free practice session from 14th to fifth place, said: "If you look at the present time, I believe that we have this weekend should be able to work more closely with the cars in front of us to fight, because I think we can still improve our lap times. "He had the soft tires not shot today the best rounds of his life. "It is difficult to get in front of the cars ahead of us, but we will try it - so why not," he said. "We had some fixes that have worked well, so we'll keep her."

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