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Does anyone know what the relationship is with Lotus? Are UK-based, Malaysian-owned Lotus paying the German-based, Romanian-entered team as a sponsor, or is the team paying a licensing fee to Lotus in return for a recognisable, high profile name?
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Has it turned a lap yet? I'm still not 100% convinced........
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They were top 4 earlier in wet practice 2. In the garage as of now.
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Lotus only got 3 laps in this morning. Anybody know what happened?
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Ok, I know you cannot bring everything but how naive is it not to bring a spare gearbox for a brand new car?
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That has to be an off the shelf item from a supplier doesn't it? Could another team be using the same brand? The teams website doesn't list a brand but just says "6 gear sequential gearbox with pedal shift". Would hate to see them unable to continue. |
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If it is an off the shelf item then they may be able to get some parts to rebuild the internals.
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The T128 had a bespoke transmission, as this car is an upgraded T128 (not 'all new' by any stretch) it may well be that this car retains that unit...
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They received replacement spares from UK last evening so all should be OK now. Probably. Maybe. You never know when the information flow from the team is so non existent.
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The Colin Le Mans P1/01 AER will start from the pitlane after a gearbox change. the gearbox was rebuilt this morning.
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Colin Le Mans? That's what the CLM stands for?
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Car did 140 laps.
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That's good considering that the winning Audi (and the second Audi and the third place Toyota) all ran 157 laps in the race. I assume that the car actually finished? Being only 17 laps down with a car that's had fairly little testing, is virtually brand new with an untried engine, and the issues that they had all weekend was a lot better than many gave the car as far as it's chances of doing much of anything.
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Yep, the car finished. 27 of the 29 starters completed the race - that's quite incredible considering the conditions.
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I'd say the Kolles team has done a pretty decent job doing this first shake-down session. Better than R-One's debut probably? As they gradually get hold of the car, a true LMP1L battle is coming.
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That was indeed a very decent showing for a first outing. Still lacking pace, but the reliability (putting the gearbox issues aside) was apparently there.
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Great to see then finish!. Hopefully they got a lot of good data to apply towards the rest of the campaign.
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does anyone have a video of the Lotus? I would love to hear the V6...
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