Marussia’s 2012 car is “not revolutionary”, according to a German-language report.<\/p>\n
The former Virgin team will not give its new single seater its official track debut until Barcelona — the second winter test of the forthcoming 2012 pre-season.<\/p>\n
That news raised expectations that the car, headed technically by the highly rated former Renault man Pat Symonds, could be a radical departure from the cars that finished the 2010 and 2011 seasons dead last.<\/p>\n
Writing in the German-language Speed Week, Peter Hesseler cited Symonds in saying that the 2012 Marussia “will have little in common” with its Virgin predecessor.<\/p>\n
But Symonds reportedly thinks the team’s spot at the very bottom of the constructors’ standings means the priority is a new car with “high quality” rather than innovation.<\/p>\n
The goal for 2012, therefore, is to move into the midfield.<\/p>\n
International media reports, meanwhile, say the former Renault team – now Lotus – has got its 2012 single seater through the FIA’s mandatory crash tests.<\/p>\n
The news means the car is now ready to make its official track debut in Kimi Raikkonen’s hands at Jerez early next month.<\/p>\n
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