Team Lotus, Jarno Trulli and Heikki Kovalainen’s Disappointing Season

Team Lotus was happy to admit that its 2010 Formula One season was about learning rather than getting results.Their entry for the season had been granted very late in the day and having a car at the first race was a triumph in itself. Of course, the car was slow. Any Formula One car built from scratch in a matter of months is going to struggle against the highly toned pedigree of the opposition. The car was particularly poor aerodynamically. I watched the car at Jerez in preseason testing, and I noticed it looking almost square from some angles. This wasn’t a problem. The team spent most of the season asking its fans to wait for 2011. This was the year we would see strong, point-scoring performances. In preparation for 2011, they took...

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