{"id":15118,"date":"2012-02-06T06:57:34","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T11:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=15118"},"modified":"2012-02-06T06:57:34","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T11:57:34","slug":"lotus-reveals-2012-car-with-stepped-nose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/lotus-reveals-2012-car-with-stepped-nose\/","title":{"rendered":"Lotus reveals 2012 car with stepped nose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lotus has become the fourth formula one team to reveal a 2012 car design with a controversial &#8216;stepped&#8217; front nose design.<\/p>\n<p>The former Renault team&#8217;s black and gold E20 was launched on the internet on Sunday from its headquarters at Enstone.<\/p>\n<p>Nose aside, another point of interest on the E20 is the disappearance of last year&#8217;s innovative front-exiting exhausts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our forward exhausts would now be illegal under the new rules and didn&#8217;t live up to our expectations in any case,&#8221; said technical director James Allison.<\/p>\n<p>A second E20 is already at Jerez for the opening test of the pre-season.<\/p>\n<p>Chairman Gerard Lopez, however, said the car is not likely to return the world championships to the former title-winning Renault and Benetton team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In 2012 we want to finish in fourth position or higher in the championship.\u00a0 Beyond that our aspirations are higher,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lotus has become the fourth formula one team to reveal a 2012 car design with a controversial &#8216;stepped&#8217; front nose design. The former Renault team&#8217;s black and gold E20 was launched on the internet on Sunday from its headquarters at Enstone. Nose aside, another point of interest on the E20 is the disappearance of last &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[5262,5340,58,562,60],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15119,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15118\/revisions\/15119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}