…And unlucky Jarno Trully and Sebastian Vettel. Jarno run into an hydraulic problem at the starting grid that prevented him from racing. Heikki had a quiet Grand Prix even though Alonso‘s spin at the first corner prevented him from finishing the race at a better position, and it was a pity as the pitstops due [...]
Archive for March, 2010
Things keep improving step by step. Today Heikki qualified in 19th place and Jarno in 20th so both cars of our team have the 10th row for themselves. Heikki was quite happy while Jarno seems to have had some problems with his seat during his fast lap, so nothing than cannot be fixed for tormorrow. [...]
They were all in Bahrein (almost, neither Nelson Piquet – a former Lotus driver himself – nor Kimi Raikkonen had turned up), the former Formula 1 champions still alive. And while we recognized Emerson Fittipaldi and Mario Andretti, both having won a title with Lotus and we longed for unforgettable Jim Clark, Graham Hill (his [...]
It was an excellent result for our team, both cars finished the race, even though Jarno had to nurse his for the last laps. As we foresaw, reliability made a difference and both T127s were the only single seaters from the new teams to finish the Grand Prix. Tony Fernandes was elated with the result [...]
The first qualifying session for Lotus in sixteen years did not go as well as expected, with our direct rivals from Virgin Racing snatching from us the position of “best of the new teams” by less than a tenth of a second, (time difference between Timo Glock and Jarno Trulli). Despite the visits of driving [...]


