Lotus have been delaying the launch of their DDRS system, but they are not planning to bring a new Coanda-style exhaust to help them mount a challenge on those infront.
The team are hoping that their new upgrades in the fly away races will help their drivers Kimi Raikkonen and Romain Grosjean to challenge for the victory.
They are set to become the latest team to try out the Coanda-style exhaust in a big upgrade package for Korea. The exhaust, that makes use of the Coanda effect to utilise exhaust gases for a boost to the car's aerodynamics, will be one of many significant changes to the E20.
The team have struggled to try out their DDRS system, which was meant to bring their car closer to the likes of Red Bull and McLaren in front. The device was delayed, and delayed thanks to wet weather or other variables.
Technical Director James Allison "The upgrades for Korea are a big step; it is the opening of a new era for us, we expect that they are going to work, but of course it's always a difficult task to find the correct setup for the car when you are also evaluating new parts."
He then added that the lack of the exhaust design, which McLaren, Ferrari and Sauber use, has meant they have fallen back. "We've been ploughing something of a lonely furrow on the circuit with our relatively straightforward, power-maximizing exhaust, however, since well before the launch of the E20 and to the present day we've been carrying out parallel developments in our wind tunnel programme based around a Coanda effect exhaust. Once we saw the potential gain of the Coanda system surpasses that of our current design it was clear that we needed to implement it, both for the benefit we could get in the last quarter of this season and also for learning experience it presents us for next year.
"We will run our first version of this style of exhaust in Korea."
Discussing the difficult DDRS system, Allison revealed that it will not appear on the car until the Young Driver Test, after the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
We haven't had the happiest of introductions with the system," he said. "It's been harder than I anticipated to make it switch effectively with only the limited opportunity afforded in free practice.We're going to take it away, have another think and most likely give it another go in the Abu Dhabi young driver test where we'll have more time to develop it in a systematic fashion."
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They are set to become the latest team to try out the Coanda-style exhaust in a big upgrade package for Korea. The exhaust, that makes use of the Coanda effect to utilise exhaust gases for a boost to the car's aerodynamics, will be one of many significant changes to the E20.
The team have struggled to try out their DDRS system, which was meant to bring their car closer to the likes of Red Bull and McLaren in front. The device was delayed, and delayed thanks to wet weather or other variables.
Technical Director James Allison "The upgrades for Korea are a big step; it is the opening of a new era for us, we expect that they are going to work, but of course it's always a difficult task to find the correct setup for the car when you are also evaluating new parts."
He then added that the lack of the exhaust design, which McLaren, Ferrari and Sauber use, has meant they have fallen back. "We've been ploughing something of a lonely furrow on the circuit with our relatively straightforward, power-maximizing exhaust, however, since well before the launch of the E20 and to the present day we've been carrying out parallel developments in our wind tunnel programme based around a Coanda effect exhaust. Once we saw the potential gain of the Coanda system surpasses that of our current design it was clear that we needed to implement it, both for the benefit we could get in the last quarter of this season and also for learning experience it presents us for next year.
"We will run our first version of this style of exhaust in Korea."
Discussing the difficult DDRS system, Allison revealed that it will not appear on the car until the Young Driver Test, after the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
We haven't had the happiest of introductions with the system," he said. "It's been harder than I anticipated to make it switch effectively with only the limited opportunity afforded in free practice.We're going to take it away, have another think and most likely give it another go in the Abu Dhabi young driver test where we'll have more time to develop it in a systematic fashion."
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This is sure a big step towards the improving the performance and introduction of the exhaust. Korea is such a great place for vehicle technology and sure will take the introduction quite well.
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