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Yep, I have desided not to care anymore what Lotus might have in their bag. Its clear they are in deeper trouble they want to tell, even Aero Gallo is now talking about money. I think the fact Lotus is owned by investment company, isnt doing any favour to them. Investment company negotiates from its own interests, not from teams point of view. Lopez is probably trying to get the slice of every sponsor deal for his company and maybe sponsors doesnt like that.
ZitatTS says that Kimis setups are ****ed up.Car pushing badly in corners and brake balance is not working at all so he can't go to corners like he should.
And in FP2 they will reset the setups and start from scratch all over again...
Apparently they went the wrong way the balance of Kimi's car.
ZitatRomain Grosjean, P1 - 1:26.990, 4th; P2 - 1:26.220, 3rd “That was a good start to the weekend. The car feels good and we made progress through the day to make it better. It’s still a struggle to find grip here which can make things interesting as you find the limits, but the pace of our car relative to our rivals looks quite good. I’m hopeful of another solid day tomorrow which should give us another strong qualifying position if the evidence of today is anything to go by. We’ll do everything we can to take the fight to Red Bull.”
Kimi Raikkonen, P1 - 1:28.730, 17th; P2 - 1:26.632, 8th “The car feels pretty okay now, but we can still make it better. We made quite a few changes in the morning as it didn’t feel so good then, but it’s much better now and we should be able to make more progress for tomorrow. The track is quite slippery, but that improves with time and the car gets better too.”
Alan Permane, Lotus trackside operations director “It was a difficult morning for Kimi who wasn’t happy with the balance of his car so his engineers made a reasonable amount of changes to the set-up over lunch, meaning the car was much more to his liking in the afternoon. Romain was generally happy with his car and just made minor changes to the set-up to get it 100 percent to his liking. We completed a good number of laps on low and high fuel with both tyres and we’re looking in strong shape. The Red Bulls are unfortunately looking incredibly quick, but we’re leading the charge behind them.”
ZitatRaikkonen struggling with front end ESPN Staff October 25, 2013
Kimi Raikkonen says he is still unhappy with the front end on his Lotus after practice for the Indian Grand Prix.
With Romain Grosjean having outqualified Raikkonen at each of the last three races, Raikkonen has attributed his inability to match his team-mate over one lap to issues with the front Pirelli tyres. After practice in India - where Raikkonen was again over 0.4s slower than Grosjean - he said an error he made prevented him from finding a solution to his problem.
"I flat-spotted my hard set of tyres on the first lap so they were pretty much useless after that," Raikkonen said. "I used them at the end for a few laps but there was so much vibration that I couldn't see and obviously it doesn't help. Then we just tried a few things and at certain times the car didn't feel too bad.
"We have some issues with the front end; I'm not happy about it but it's hard to get rid of it because there are certain rules on the safety side of the tyres with the new tyres. It wasn't too bad at certain times but not ideal, so we'll see."
While Raikkonen admitted that he too had some issues with his front left soft tyre, he said they were mainly self-inflicted.
"We had some [front-left problems] but we changed the set-up a lot so I think we created some of the blistering and graining on the soft tyres ourselves, so I wouldn't be too worried about it."
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