KAKITANGAN Lotus bergambar bersama jentera terbaru.
Jentera miliki reka bentuk lebih kontemporari raih tempat ketujuh keseluruhan
VALENCIA: Team Lotus mempersembahkan kereta Formula Satu 2011 semalam, lebih awal daripada jentera Lotus yang disokong Renault dengan majlis pengenalan dalam talian yang menggariskan sasaran mereka untuk meraih mata dan bersaing untuk mendapatkan tempat ketujuh keseluruhan.
“Jentera tahun ini memiliki reka bentuk lebih kontemporari,” kata pengarah teknikal, Mike Gascoyne mengenai imej kereta T128 dalam warna klasik hijau dan kuning klasik Lotus.
“Kereta ini akan memberikan saingan di tengah grid. Ia adalah kereta moden F1 dan saya yakin ia adalah peralihan besar dan permulaan proses yang membawa Team Lotus ke depan grid.”
Pasukan itu bersaing sebagai Lotus Racing tahun lalu, tetapi di sebalik menjadi antara yang terbaik di antara kesemua tiga pendatang baru, gagal meraih satu mata pun pada musim pertamanya.
Sejak pasukan itu memperkenalkan jenama ikon Lotus ke sukan itu buat kali pertama sejak ia diilhamkan mendiang Colin Chapman pada 1994, wujud perselisihan dengan syarikat milik Malaysia itu.
Group Lotus menjadi penaja dan pemegang saham majoriti dalam pasukan Renault dan mereka serta Team Lotus dijadualkan hadir di Mahkamah Tinggi London pada hujung Mac dalam kes untuk menentukan siapa yang memiliki hak untuk menggunakan jenama itu dalam F1.
Sementara itu, musim dijadualkan bermula di Bahrain pada 13 Mac dengan kedua-dua pasukan menggunakan nama Lotus dan dipacu dengan enjin Renault. Renault dijangka akan melancarkan jentera hitam dan emas, mengimbau sejarah 1970an dan 1980an ketika Lotus muncul juara perlumbaan dan gelaran ketika ditaja syarikat rokok John Player Special, di litar Valencia, lewat semalam. – Reuters
The Team Lotus 2011 challenger T128 was launched on Monday 31st January exclusively in Team Lotus Notes. The special launch edition of the team's magazine has a number of first-see images of the 2011 car and insights from key players within Team Lotus into the design and build process of the new car, including people from the Aero, R&D and Vehicle Dynamics, Design and Senior Management Teams.
Here are a few selected highlights, but click on the link to the launch edition on the homepage of www.teamlotus.co.uk for the whole story.
Marianne Hinson, Head of Aerodynamics: "In aero we started thinking about the new car around Spring last year, a bit before any of the other departments. The start of the process is a really fun period, when you're looking through the new rules, thrashing out ideas and trying to find loopholes."
Lewis Butler, Chief Designer: "The biggest design challenge was trying to package everything a bit smaller. We were trying to get that area around the driver really tight so the aerodynamicists were happy with it."
Elliot Dason-Barber, Head of R&D and Vehicle Dynamics: "We're definitely going to take a step forward with this car. Quite how much we'll close the gap to the teams in front of us we'll see, but my hope is we'll be competing with the teams that were a second or two ahead of us last season."
Keith Saunt, Chief Operating Officer: "You can just see that this car will be faster than last year's. It's got the right sweeps and curves on it - it's the very latest iteration of what an F1 car should be."
Mike Gascoyne, Chief Technical Officer: "I think that basically this car looks like a front-running car in every area. We said very clearly that we want to start challenging the established teams and I think that's very achievable."
Riad Asmat, Chief Executive Officer: "T128 takes Team Lotus in exactly the right direction. We have said since day one of the Team Lotus dream that the plan for our second year was to take the fight to the midfield, and with this car we are all confident that is what we will be able to do."
Team Principal Tony Fernandes: "There has been so much focus off-track it's a thrill to be able to get back to talking about racing. The launch of the T128 is a big step forward for Team Lotus and I want to thank the whole team for the amount of hard work that has already gone into the car, and I want to thank Renault and Red Bull Technology for their tremendous support in helping us make this step forward and for being such great team partners."
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Well, it looks like March 21 will be the day that the naming row over Lotus goes into full trial. In a summary judgment application hearing at the High Court in London yesterday, the judge rejected Group Lotus’ application to prevent the case from going to a full trial.
At the hearing, Justice Peter Smith also felt that it was in everyone’s best interests to bring the hearing date for the full trial forward earlier, instead of allowing the situation to continue to simmer until sometime near the end of the year.
Fixing the date of the beginning of the trial at March 21, which is after the season opener in Bahrain, Justice Smith nonetheless urged both parties to attempt to settle the issue amicably before then.
Team Lotus boss Tony Fernandes was of course delighted by the initial outcome of the case. “Very very happy over the judgment today. And extremely happy that full trial brought forward to March 21. The good do always eventually win,” he wrote on his Twitter feed.
“Today’s case is Group’s desperate attempt to use their one-way unlawful termination of license agreement of Lotus Racing. Saying One Malaysia can’t use Lotus. Part of post-termination clauses. So nothing changes on Team Lotus,” Fernandes stated in another Twitter post.
So, while the “Battle of the Lotuses” continues to run, one thing’s for sure right now – there’ll be Group Lotus’ Lotus-Renault GP and Tony Fernandes’ Team Lotus on the starting grid for the 2011 F1 season.
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