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Lotus E20 - Coanda effect exhaust 14 Oct 2012

Lotus E20 - Coanda effect exhaust

Lotus are the last team to follow the trend for the Coanda-effect exhaust system, introducing it from Friday in Korea on Kimi Raikkonen's car, providing exhaust-boosted airflow over the rear brake ducts and around the diffuser sides. The Finn continued to use it in qualifying and race, while team...»

Lotus E20 - rear wing changes 06 Oct 2012

Lotus E20 - rear wing changes

Lotus tested two different rear wing configurations on Friday in Japan. Kimi Raikkonen again used the double-DRS 'device' (inset) but only in the morning session, while Romain Grosjean used the new rear wing introduced in Singapore but not used in qualifying and the race. On Saturday at Suzuka both...»

Lotus E30 - Monza rear wing 09 Sep 2012

Lotus E30 - Monza rear wing

For the low-downforce Monza circuit, Lotus had the shortest chord main plane on their rear wing (around 10 cm). By comparison the flap was quite large, in order to ensure a good speed improvement with the DRS active. At the previous round in Spa the team had used quite a standard rear wing compared...»

Lotus E20 - revised nose 29 Jul 2012

Lotus E20 - revised nose

Lotus introduced a new bulging nose cone (see red arrow) and wider nose pillars (see yellow dotted line) in Budapest this weekend to increase downforce and improve the car's handling around this medium-slow circuit. Like he did in Germany last weekend, driver Kimi Raikkonen also tested the team's...»

Lotus E20 - prototype 'double DRS' system 23 Jul 2012

Lotus E20 - prototype 'double DRS' system

In Friday's practice sessions in Germany Lotus trialled - in the team's words - a 'prototype concept', thought to be a response to the FIA declaring Mercedes' 'double DRS' system legal earlier in the year. Whereas the Mercedes' system ducts airflow from the rear wing through the car and uses it to...»

Lotus E20 - front wing solutions 25 Jun 2012

Lotus E20 - front wing solutions

Lotus brought three different front wings to Valencia and in the end Kimi Raikkonen and Romain Grosjean decided to race with two different solutions. Whilst Raikkonen used the front wing introduced at the previous round in Canada (see right-hand insets), Grosjean opted to sample a modified version...»

Lotus E20 - revised front wing 21 Apr 2012

Lotus E20 - revised front wing

Lotus again experimented with the new front wing they introduced in Shanghai last weekend. It has an endplate made up of three pieces (right-hand arrow) and different turning vanes in the wing's central section (left-hand arrow). But after Romain Grosjean damaged his front wing during Friday...»

Reactive ride-height suspension 19 Jan 2012

Reactive ride-height suspension

Last November at the young driver test in Abu Dhabi, Lotus (then Renault) evaluated this reactive ride-height suspension system. It's designed to help the car maintain a constant ride height under braking, which should boost stability and hence aerodynamic performance. An obstacle could have been...»

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