Lotus Renault GP’s 2011 challenger has been unveiled at Valencia, where F1 teams are having their first test session of the year from now till 3rd Feb. Drivers Robert Kubica and Vitaly Petrov pulled the covers off the R31 alongside Team Chairman Gerard Lopez and Team Principal Eric Boullier.
Genii boss Lopez wants to see the team compete at the front of the grid. “For Genii Capital and Lotus Renault GP, the 2011 season will be the one in which we achieve our aims. Our aim for 2011 is to continue our march towards the front of the grid, seize the slightest opportunity and do better than last season in both the drivers’ and constructors’ championships. We feel we are well prepared for the challenge ahead,” he said.
Team boss Eric Boullier echoed those sentiments. “All the hard work over the winter has been focused on delivering a big improvement for 2011. The result is a car with more than 92% new parts compared to the R30. But technical innovation isn’t the only key to performance. Since last year, we have reviewed all our internal processes and our overall efficiency has now improved by 15%. That means we should be more competitive than last year, on the track and at the factory,” he revealed.
As we posted before, Bruno Senna, who last year raced with HRT, joins Lotus Renault’s team of third drivers. His colleagues are Romain Grosjean, Jan Charouz, Ho-Pin Tung and Fairuz Fauzy. If you’re wondering why the Malaysian isn’t in the picture, he was unable to attend due to GP2 Series commitments.
The black and gold team also welcomes two new partners in SunCore and Sibur. Some other names on the car that you may not have heard off belongs to Genii Capital’s Business Exchange platform.
More pics after the jump.
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4 me,the meaning of this colour scheme
gold= lookin classic
black and red = devil like
conclusion=
classic devil
i like!
CLASSIC DEVIL
wow.. a new nickname haa
Classic Devil will do black to the future.
kesian Dany Bahar and PROTON always described as a bad guy, although we already saw they always trying to revived back LOTUS brand from dying.
bashers gonna like this for sure classic devil..?? lol
even with my magnifiying class
i couldnt see my malaysian driver
where the hell he is?
if hes there
then must be the make up artist fault
for painting his face very different so that i cant recognize him at all
the liveries kinda good
but everything in black looks good
even bra
it makes me hot atleast
but red bra is the best
so this represent lotus jv with genii and renault
means proton also indirectly link to the world’s most famous motoring sport
so i guess the next persona or the bigger engine model
should atleast feature some f1 technologies in them
paddle shifter that shifts within 6miliseconds?
air intake that looks like airfighter airscoop?
KERS?
dream on?
take it as challenge, proton
Quoted;
“If you’re wondering why the Malaysian isn’t in the picture, he was unable to attend due to GP2 Series commitments. “…
–> gosh.. do u even read???
oh shite
my bad
i put on my glass on the pics
i am sorry
luckily i am not brain surgeon
read until finish la…..
“If you’re wondering why the Malaysian isn’t in the picture, he was unable to attend due to GP2 Series commitments.”
even u use microscope, u cannot see him…… apa la…..
that explained why he isnt in the picture
must work harder
to improve my reading
Fairuz in abu dhabi for GP2
“even with my magnifiying class
i couldnt see my malaysian driver
where the hell he is?”
samada rabun atau u really blind.
he was unable to attend due to GP2 Series commitments. – Danny wrote. read fully.
romain grosjean will also take part for abu dhabi GP2 test. Excuse oni.
Sponsor genii capital more my dear lotus!! Fairuz need more moneh!!
they’re not on the same team in gp2….and the gp2 testing starts on feb2 which is today…n just like today’s f1 test, not all team are involved….so perhaps super nova team is testing early and dams is testing later thus why fairuz fauzy is not around
i have to say that Team Lotus livery r much better than the Lotus Renault GP livery… anyway, there’s some ‘trick’ with this R31 coz no one seem to know (or can visibly see) where r the exhaust exit is.. cool eh?… it’s yet to see if this new design can be another “F-Duct” kinda thing… (finger crossed)
yeah that is the trick.. where is the exhaust pipe??
it is so mysterious.
exhaust mystery vs lotus saga
so many events occurs..
1) lotus saga.. proton vs tony
2) lotus originals.. wanna say other team is fake? http://www.lotusoriginals.com
3) 7 lotus renault gp drivers just for 2 F1 cars?
4) 5 lotus cars launched in paris
5) and this february lotus wanna do racing on ice with legendary WRC driver from Finland, Juha Kankkunen
always never fail to make headline, either bad, good or mysterious
maybe that is why before this ferrari call Dany Bahar as Ferrari Brand Guru and Red Bull boss call him as his right hand man.
i’m not sure if u r joking or just plain stupid… i assume u r stupid so let me make myself clear… F1 is not the place to make cosmetic changes to the car just for the sake of making the car look beautiful, everything has its purpose… while i’m not sure if their exhaust exits design can make their cars faster than anyone else, but i’m pretty sure it’s a very revolutionary design that can give their cars adding downforce if channels to the bottom plates (at least that what i think).. the interesting thing about this is how they do it & does it works? just like last season F-Duct on the McLaren that make other teams race to copy its design… ok?
well osh_kos,you just being ignorant or 2decades out of date
quoted “F1 is not the place to make cosmetic changes to the car just for the sake of making the car look beautiful”
f1 certainly is the the place to make cosmetic change
that just goes well with the racing spirit
well matt, tell me what is racing spirit to u? making cosmetic changes to make the car look beutiful OR to make the car go faster?? don’t twist & turn just for the sake of denying my point… now, that’s ignorant.. *sigh*
just optical ilusion, the color n wording make it disapear…it there i can see it clearly…zoom the pic…i think that exhust(i guess so)
the exhaust exits r believe to be channels to the bottom front of the sidepods.. as to why it was there i’m not sure but common sense was to help with the generation of extra downforce to the bottom plate, just like the blown diffuser thingy.. well, this is speculative as we r yet to see if their new design is actually suppose to work that way or something else.. but the most interesting thing is how good it will be or how much advantages they’ll have for the new design/system compare to others…
the lotus on the car is so small i can’t even see it
how about ‘Fiat” on the Ferrari’s? so??… anyway, RENAULT-LOTUS-LADA.. gosh, how many car manufacturers they can add in a single race team/car? might as well ask TATA to join them from Force India..
come on osh_kosh, don’t be such ignorant.
1. Fiat is not title sponsor for ferrari. Fiat is there because they are under one roof, Fiat Group.
2. TATA is nowhere to see on force india F1 , but ferrari.
what?? u can’t see TATA on Force India?? now dude.. go & see again..
who said anything about Fiat being a title sponsor??? funny la u ni sayang… hehe
me neither. it’s the way you compared “fiat on ferrari” with “lotus on LRGP”. LRGP has obligation to put “Lotus” on their cars as lotus pays millions to LRGP. look at Mercedes GP, how big “Petronas Malaysia” on their cars.
oh boy.. look at how big Petronas word/logo & compare??? wahahaha… i surrender-lah sayang…
look at the back wing,
i think that’s the best place to put your name as a sponsor,
most camera angle on f1 livery will catch those lotus brand on it,
correct me if I’m wrong
the picture is not right. where’s fairuz??
can u read the post fully? baca sampai habis ye sayang;P
romain grosjean will also take part for abu dhabi GP2 test. But he’s there.
FYI, GP2 Asia Series only start on 10 Feb.
Testings starts today feb 2nd and they’re not on the same team….1 is supernova and 1 is dams…so commitment and testing schedule might be different
do you even care read until last sentence…. still with tony team lotus
oh boy KZM… I hope you’re not smoking JPS while typing that reply
lol
wat?
SeriousSAM is serious. He can’t read sarcasm.
Excuse me, where is Proton’s logo on the car and why is Lada on it? I know Lada is one of their sponsor since last year but don’t you think it is a little bit inappropriate. I mean, come on. At least give some credit to Proton rather having some Russian crap on the car. Good looking car tho..
LADA come from Petrov, as part of a few Russian sponsors backing him for his seat…
Yes, I know that. I’m just wondering why Proton themselves do not promote their brand name on the car as Lotus is part of their group and I believe Proton help Lotus with sponsorship money. But I guess Proton is concentrating on Rallying since their Satria Neo S2000 is making headlines everywhere nowadays.
The sponsor is Group Lotus not PROTON, that is why no PROTON logo on the car la
but some ppl wil argue that the money come from PROTON… so i leave it for them to make their own judgement.. as they please..
Team Lotus has my support!
so many people guessing where is the location of the exchaust, and then i saw this, scarbsF1 said it is infront of the car.. we’ll see.. so mysterius
http://twitpic.com/3vf0o2
now i understand.. kids.. hahahaha
he just speculates it. as some suggest the “supercavity Theory”. let’s wait and see. last year scarbs wrote about F-Duct. He got it all wrong at the beginning. That article was there until about july, when everybody else understand the system and almost every teams copied it. He then wrote new article about F-Duct and apologised. He’s good writer and illustrator, though.
the only lotus word (as i saw) in the car was at the back. Renault’s words even more than lotus.
Just wonder why the name is Team Lotus Renault, not Team Renault Lotus.
Lotus are owning this team or sponsoring this team?
If sponsoring….poor proton..poor marketing.
Just my humble opinion…
Paultan.org previous posts has explained that Group Lotus/Proton is the title sponsor, much like petronas is to mercedes. However, group lotus will have the option to purchase half the team.
I agree it is a complete waste of money since there is another team promoting their name on the grid. If Proton buy the team outright that might make sense economically and technically but i guess genii capital wants bucketloads of money for that.
Team Lotus – Renault is for Tony’s team.. this ones called Lotus Renault GP.. & yes there’s only one ‘Lotus” word on the rear wing plus a ‘Lotus’ logo on the nose cone of that car.. same as Tony’s car i.e Team Lotus logo on the nose cone.. the logo r almost identical with slightly different colour..
Rather than thinking JPS, I see German World Cup 2010 squad livery on this… black and gold, the best jersey during World Cup. Beautiful :)
Go Kubica! Go Petrov!
yeap.. go crash that R31 into barrier
:D
good ones.. hahahaha…
Got KERS or not? All other car launch at least mentioned about KERS, this article nothing about KERS….
Got
i think all top teams r with KERS.. Renault, Williams & Merc also but not sure about the rest of midfield teams & the backmarkers…
as far as I know only Team Lotus is not using KERS and probably HRT.
all other teams including Virgin will have KERS