Lotus Renault GP’s Eric Boullier claims his team is over their Singapore GP result – Formula 1 news
Lotus Renault GP team principal Eric Boullier has recently stated that his team is now over its Singapore Grand Prix result but admitted that it was a very disappointing weekend for the team as Vitaly Petrov finished behind Heikki Kovalainen’s Lotus.
“To be honest we've all put this experience behind us. We fully understand why we performed so poorly and the explanation is simple: slow corners in the 60-100km/h range just don't do it for the R31. It is written in its DNA. We could have worked three weeks
on the set-up but we would not have found a second in laptime,” he said.
Even Bruno Senna was unable to score a good result and that is quite disappointing for a team which wants to become a top-running team of the sport in a couple of years’ time.
Team Lotus are a back-running team but they have been performing really poorly. Finishing behind them was a very disappointing result for the team as Renault are a championship winning team and even this year, they are currently in 5th place
in the constructors’ standings behind Mercedes GP.
During the early stages of the 2011 Formula 1 season, Renault were doing a terrific job but it seems that they did not improve their car with time as a result of which they are now losing a lot of time and have already lost to Mercedes GP a number of times.
“Things should get better for us on quicker tracks and Suzuka is one of them. In Japan, we expect to return to the level of performance we saw in Belgium and Italy. Our mission will be to focus on getting both cars into Q3,” he added.
The team is optimistic about the rest of the races this year and Boullier believes that Renault are now big enough to get over such experiences.
Let’s see how Renault fare in the upcoming Japanese Grand Prix scheduled to take place on October 9, 2011.
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