Lotus will drop its unique ‘tusked’ nose solution for the 2015 season.<\/p>\n
Although the Enstone team has struggled this year, technical director Nick Chester insists the innovative nose is a “pretty good solution” that will stay on the current car for the rest of the season.<\/p>\n
But with the FIA changing the regulations to end the unseemly ‘anteater’-style noses elsewhere on the grid, Lotus will also have to make changes for 2015.<\/p>\n
“No.\u00a0 The way the nose structure rules are written, it would be very hard to do,” Chester told F1’s official website when asked if Lotus will stick with its double-pronged solution next year.<\/p>\n
“It is actually easier to design a more conventional low nose, so going that route it’s easier to pass the crash test,” he added.<\/p>\n
Chester admitted, however, that Lotus might run an early iteration of a more conventional nose later this season during a Friday practice session.<\/p>\n
But in the actual races, the forked nose is staying put for now.<\/p>\n
“There’s not really a benefit (to changing it in 2014),” Chester said, “because all the work we have done in the tunnel says we would lose downforce by doing it.”<\/p>\n
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