Daniel Ricciardo has admitted he is “surprised” Lotus is still struggling so much with its Renault engine.<\/p>\n
Following the post-Bahrain test last week, Lotus’ Romain Grosjean slammed the situation as “not acceptable”, after both himself and teammate Pastor Maldonado struggled simply to run the E22 amid ‘power unit-related’ issues.<\/p>\n
The similarly Renault-powered Red Bull’s Ricciardo, however, said he is “surprised” to hear the extent of Lotus’ ongoing troubles.<\/p>\n
“It is not very reassuring to see another Renault powered team encountering such difficulties,” the Australian is quoted by the French-language F1i.<\/p>\n
“We also had a few problems with the V6 turbo in the tests, but nothing too serious,” Ricciardo added.<\/p>\n
“While we can make further progress on reliability, I am surprised that they (Lotus) are still facing so many problems.”<\/p>\n
Indeed, Renault’s Remi Taffin said ahead of the Chinese grand prix that the French marque, after a difficult opening few months of 2014, is now beginning to “hit our stride”.<\/p>\n
“While we know that the others are still ahead, we have made some good progress in the last two races,” he explained.<\/p>\n
“At the test in Bahrain we tested several new software modes that will see us closer to the limits of the power unit than before,” added Taffin.<\/p>\n
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