What are Lotus up to?
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enstone/lotus had a lot to do with the ERS side of the Renault power units if were to believe what were told, so they don't pay the full price per units that toro rosso and caterham pay (RBR are works, they don't pay for engines hence the infiniti sponsorship). With that in mind you have to say for them missing out the first test was probably a masterstroke, they've seen that the unit has issues and will probably learn at the same rate as RBR, Toro rosso and caterham in the much more relevant Bahrain.
Interesting article:
GP Guide said:
Other Renault teams to 'observe' Lotus debut
2014-02-07
Feb.7 (GMM) Representatives of the Red Bull, Toro Rosso and Caterham teams will reportedly be present when Lotus does its 'filming day' at Jerez on Friday.
With the Enstone team having sat out the first official test in southern Spain, Brazil's Globo claims troubled engine supplier Renault has invited its other customers back to Jerez as the E22 makes its track debut.
The report said that while Lotus was not keen on the idea, Renault wants all of its V6 customers at Jerez "to monitor" the E22 rollout, presumably to get to the bottom of the technical problems that marred the official Jerez test.
To sweeten the deal for Lotus, who preferred that the 'filming day' remain private, Renault has reportedly vowed to pay for the outing.
Globo said the new Lotus will "debut some of the changes" devised by Renault since Caterham, and particularly Toro Rosso and Red Bull, struggled to merely run their new 2014 cars at Jerez last week.
2014-02-07
Feb.7 (GMM) Representatives of the Red Bull, Toro Rosso and Caterham teams will reportedly be present when Lotus does its 'filming day' at Jerez on Friday.
With the Enstone team having sat out the first official test in southern Spain, Brazil's Globo claims troubled engine supplier Renault has invited its other customers back to Jerez as the E22 makes its track debut.
The report said that while Lotus was not keen on the idea, Renault wants all of its V6 customers at Jerez "to monitor" the E22 rollout, presumably to get to the bottom of the technical problems that marred the official Jerez test.
To sweeten the deal for Lotus, who preferred that the 'filming day' remain private, Renault has reportedly vowed to pay for the outing.
Globo said the new Lotus will "debut some of the changes" devised by Renault since Caterham, and particularly Toro Rosso and Red Bull, struggled to merely run their new 2014 cars at Jerez last week.
Gaz. said:
Limited to 100km eh 
Did RedBull actualy go over 100km in the four days of the Jerez winter testing?
I've been pondering this so had to look it up.Did RedBull actualy go over 100km in the four days of the Jerez winter testing?
RB managed 21 laps. Jerez circuit is 4.428 km long. Therefore they did a shade under 93km last week
Lotus's decision not to go was, in retrospect, pretty clever.
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