Last weekend’s Turkish GP, which was won convincingly by Seb Vettel, saw both Lotus Renault GP drivers in the points – Heidfeld came in seventh and Petrov was eighth. The team got hold of Group Lotus F1 spokesman Jean Alesi to comment on the race. Here’s what the Stallone lookalike former racer had to say:
With Heidfeld coming in 7th and Petrov in 8th both Lotus Renault GP drivers finished in the points this weekend, what’s your view on the race?
As I’ve said before, I think it’s very clear that the car is really competitive, to have two cars finish in the top ten at this stage of the season is great. I enjoyed the race and I had a little moment of real pride when I was watching the post race coverage on RAI (Italian TV and F1 host broadcaster), they had an exclusive interview with Red Bull Racing’s Chief Technical Officer Adrian Newey and they asked him what had surprised him most this season and he said Lotus Renault GP and the clever exhaust system. Newey is widely regarded to be at the top of his game and to have him say this about the R31 is just fantastic!
It seemed to be a very interesting race from a strategic point of view, what did you think of LRGP’s four-stop strategy?
I think the team played things perfectly. The tyre wear for Pirelli was really intense which made for some very entertaining racing. LRGP pitched it just right, I think they have a really good feeling for exactly what works for the cars, drivers and the tyres. To be fourth in the Constructers Championship after just four races is very promising, Heidfeld is only three points behind Felipe Massa in the Ferrari – I think that speaks volumes!
What can we expect from the next couple of races?
If the team continues the way they are, I can’t see why there won’t be another top ten finish in Barcelona, but where I really think the car will shine is in Monaco, the week after – the unique street circuit should suit the R31’s special characteristics really well.
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oh boy..Tony Fernandes won’t be happy to hear about this..hehe, anyway Malaysians..it is very clear Lotus Renault is the best right? :D
Tony didn’t need to compare his team with Renault. They was once WCC/WDC champions so it not surprised if they come up with the ingenious designs. Yes, it’s Renault, and not from GL-PROTON designs.
He consistently said Team Lotus should be compared with Virgin and HRT.
Even the team is a former world champion, they still humble down to the earth by not talk cocky nonsense..rather than over confidence like Team Lotus.
Team Lotus PR suck5, they should not try to inflate things and allow the results to speak for itself la … midfield runners my butt. All nonsense …
the largest sponsorhip of the season from proton (gov / rakyat money)!!
huge budget for development and R&D…
all of us is deserve to have a FREE set of lotus-RENAULT gp team wear!
We are the BOSS!!
y suddenly people like lotus aka proton in f1…dont u guy said waste tax money? my tax money
nice,
so humble that they just aim as top ten finisher only although they was on podium in previous race
i wonder what TF and TL will aim for Monaco.. be in midfielder or challenge midfielder again?
they’ll set target to achieve podium finish; due to ‘very-high-downforce’ nature of the car.
they’ll navigate the twists n turns of monaco gp without even have to brake. juz cruising around..
seriously stallone lookalike.. never notice this when he was racing for sauber about a decade ago.. heh heh..
You should watch the Stallone movie Driven. There’s a scene where the real Sly shakes hands with the clone Sly!
I watched Rocky IV on Astro last night and upon reading this article, I was wondering,
“What the heck is Stallone doing here?”
Hahaha… Maybe Jean Alesi should put a boxing glove and do a sparring on TF belly.
Oh wait, I’m suppose to be TF cyber trooper!
Stallone was interested to do a race movie inspired by F1 and was seen in the paddock at several F1 races alongside Alesi. However it didn’t work out.. presumably the commercial rightsholder(bernie) was an obstacle.. So he did Driven which was based on the Champcar series and honestly was a crap movie. Watched it and regretted.
Now I think there is a trend everytime paul came out with Proton related article people talked proton crapla, waste my tax moneyla, power window problemla…
When talked about p2, owh copycatla, no innovationla…
when paul came out with so called LRGP or Team Lotus Racing they come out with oh TF suckla, big mouth and bash TF. I mean come onla Malaysian (bashers) stop continue bash about other people, ya I know TF always speak rubbish, that is because to motivate his people, to expose his team to the world, to promote his business (cheap advertising)…
when TF start his air asia everyone dont bother him at all, think he’s crazy, now look him, look at air asia.. you all keeping bashing him, do you guys know that he doesnt give damn to all of that… he has the money, he can travel here and there, buy other company like buy kuih at pasar malam, what about u guys? go to work, take long morning break, every 5 minutes log on facebook, wait for paul’s new post.. what a lame life u guys have…
take it or leave… who cares…..
butthurt detected