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The evil look is because he's being forced to use a Blackberry.
LOL yes silly goose it's a hole. But what does the hole lead to? KERS cooling or some type of passive DRS augmentation. And I beg your pardon, the arrow is not small, it's appropriately sized for the hole it's pointing to!
So according to Craig he thinks it's just for general cooling of electronics and stuff as it's too small a hole to be anything else in his opinion.
@ Scotty he said he's going to be collaborating with Peter Windsor a lot this year.
The Frenchman warned that it will not be until the next week's final pre-season test at Barcelona that teams run in Melbourne specification.
Several rivals have commented on the pace of the Lotus, most recently Sauber driver Nico Hulkenberg, but the team is making no assumptions about its position in the competitive order.
"Confident, no, but happy, yes," said Boullier when asked by AUTOSPORT about his feelings on the car's performance.
"I know that next test everyone is going to bring a Melbourne spec, so we will see next weekend how it is going.
"Then you can stop to draw some conclusions. But the race is in Melbourne."
Boullier confirmed that his team will also introduce an upgrade package for the final test.
Lotus has shown glimpses of potentially frontrunning pace so far in testing.
It is expecting to make a good step with the Melbourne-spec parts and he does not expect other teams to make a significantly bigger step.
"After today, I hope nobody will find one-second of performance between now and then, it doesn't work like this," he said.
"It should be a reasonable upgrade."
Like all teams, Lotus has struggled with tyre degradation, with one of Romain Grosjean's race simulation stints cut short yesterday because of it.
But Boullier is reserving judgement until the cars run in warmer temperatures.
"It looks like they're degrading more," he said.
"But we saw last year when it was cold that the tyres were completely out of the [temperature] range, graining and degrading massively.
"We need to wait now to have hotter temperatures to see how the tyres are working and if there is a big difference."
"In Brazil [using 2013 development rubber in practice] the tyres weren't degradation that much."
just noticed this.
He looks evil.
I emailed scarbs a question on it and he actually replied to me... said he was on his BB and couldn't see the image but asked me to clarify what it was and he'd look at it.
Very cool.
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