Lotus enjoyed a trouble-free track debut with its 2014 car, the E22, at Jerez.<\/p>\n
Earlier rumours suggested the Enstone team had struck the same sort of Renault-powered trouble that left the French engine supplier’s grandee partner, Red Bull, with only a handful of laps of running at the official Jerez test recently.<\/p>\n
Now, it emerges that while the E22’s Friday debut late last week amounted to a mere 1 lap, the new Lotus in fact completed 100 kilometres the following day — the maximum amount of mileage allowed for ‘filming’ test purposes.<\/p>\n
The team did not release any detailed information, but a spokesman told Germany’s Auto Motor und Sport that both the car and the Renault V6 ran successfully without any major problems.<\/p>\n
And team owner Gerard Lopez told France’s Infosport Plus: “We were very well prepared.\u00a0 No problems, no overheating, nothing — the car ran like clockwork, which was quite surprising when you look at what happened at Jerez the first time.<\/p>\n
“We are ready to go to Bahrain and start running in the first hour,” he added.<\/p>\n
Renault also suggested that its tweaks since the Jerez calamity seemed to have borne fruit, saying officially that the Lotus ran “without any reliability problems”.<\/p>\n
“Updates developed in the dyno at Viry during and post Jerez test were run,” the French outfit said, adding that preparations for the next official test in Bahrain “are ongoing”.<\/p>\n
Renault’s use of the Lotus ‘filming’ day to fix its problems would seem to breach the regulations, but the marque insisted it merely “validated” fixes that were developed at the factory.<\/p>\n
“As usual, everyone is committed to providing performance and reliability required for normal PU (power unit) operation and a fully competitive 2014 season,” said Renault.<\/p>\n
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