Lotus continue to battle from the back
foot having been late with their 2014 challenger, a succession of
powerunit issues has also curtailed the Enstone based teams
performances and so they approached Barcelona with fresh vigor hoping
to put some of this behind them.
Having chosen to design their car with
asymmetric features the exhaust can be offset to the right with the
central rear wing support pylon offset to the left. With the team
wanting to install a Y100 Winglet / Monkey Seat in Barcelona they've
had to craft an extension from the support pylon for the winglet to
sit on. Conversely the team have opted to centralise the Y100
Winglet, maximising it's width (200mm wide) which will unlikely get
maximum upwash effect from the exhaust as other teams seem to be
leveraging.
The loss of the beam wing for 2014 has
however led to most of the field using winglets and structures in the
Y100 region to create airflow structures that make the diffuser and
rear wing interact. This therefore is a step in that direction for
Lotus and will likely help the drivers with a little more balance.
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