{"id":939,"date":"2010-03-26T00:16:01","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T08:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/?p=939"},"modified":"2010-03-26T00:16:01","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T08:16:01","slug":"lotus-racing-australian-gp-practice-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/26\/lotus-racing-australian-gp-practice-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"Lotus Racing Australian GP Practice Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"2010<\/a><\/p>\n

Practice Session 1<\/strong><\/p>\n

A sunny day in Melbourne welcomed Lotus Racing to their first practice session of round two of the 2010 Formula One\u2122 season. Both drivers were keen to get going and test the cars on the semi-street track of Albert Park, and once again, a Lotus Cosworth was out first, Jarno Trulli being first car on track.<\/p>\n

Heikki Kovalainen<\/a><\/strong>, 26 laps, best time 1.31.654: \u201cFirst session was good – pretty much how we were planning to do it. We had a little problem with the differential but we managed to work around it. It meant that the car wasn\u2019t quite performing 100% but it\u2019s no big deal, and we were able to put some good laps in and check the car, the balance and the tyres and we\u2019re pretty happy about it \u2013 all in all I feel very comfortable in the car.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jarno Trulli<\/a><\/strong>, 13 laps, best time 1.31.654: \u201cWe had a small issue but in the end we put in two good runs which meant we could check the balance and the tyres. It\u2019s good to be back in Melbourne and running and I\u2019m looking forward to having a better session this afternoon.\u201d <\/p>\n

Practice Session 2<\/strong><\/p>\n

The second practice session on Friday afternoon in Melbourne began under cloudy skies with light rain falling, curtailing track time for Lotus Racing throughout the afternoon session. Despite this the team ran a solid session and finished ahead of both other new teams having completed a total of 32 laps in second practice, with Jarno Trulli finishing the session 20th (17 laps \/ 30 laps total) with a best time of 1.30.695 and Heikki Kovalainen 18th on 1.29.860 (15 laps \/ 41 laps total).<\/p>\n

Jarno Trulli<\/strong>: \u201cIt\u2019s been a bit of a difficult day because we lost a bit of time this morning, and unfortunately this afternoon the track was pretty wet so we couldn\u2019t really find a good set up. When I went out I had a few issues with understeer but, though it\u2019ll be a little difficult tomorrow, we\u2019ll see what we can learn in final practice before qualifying starts.\u201d<\/p>\n

Heikki Kovalainen<\/strong>: \u201cThe second session was much better for me, because the car functioned very well and we had the differential working 100%. The car felt really really good and we were very pleased with the way it was behaving. Obviously the rain disrupted things a little bit, but everyone was in the same boat. So, we\u2019re well prepared, and we\u2019re just going to try to maintain the reliability that we\u2019ve achieved so far. Overall we\u2019re in really good shape.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mike Gascoyne<\/a>, Lotus Racing Chief Technical Officer<\/strong>: \u201cObviously the second session was affected by rain, which made it difficult, but we were able to run both types of tyre and get a feeling for how they both behave. Overall not a bad day \u2013 we got through most of our program, despite the conditions in the second session, so I\u2019m pretty pleased.<\/p>\n

[press release from Lotus Racing]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Practice Session 1 A sunny day in Melbourne welcomed Lotus Racing to their first practice session of round two of the 2010 Formula One\u2122 season. Both drivers were keen to get going and test the cars on the semi-street track of Albert Park, and once again, a Lotus Cosworth was out first, Jarno Trulli being … <\/p>\n

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