Pastor Maldonado dealt with Lotus's tough 2014 Formula 1 season better than Romain Grosjean and does not deserve his "awfully bad" image, reckons the team's trackside operations director Alan Permane.Maldonado only once made it into the points in F1 in 2014 as Lotus tumbled down the order. But Permane said...

Related StoriesPastor Maldonado will be forced to switch to a new Lotus chassis after crashing heavily during practice for Formula 1's Singapore Grand Prix.The Venezuelan driver lost control of his car at the midway point of the second Friday practice session, severely damaging the front-right corner of his E22 against...

Related StoriesA sensor failure on his Renault Formula 1 power unit cost Romain Grosjean the chance to beat the Ferraris in the Spanish Grand Prix.The Franco-Swiss driver started from a season's best fifth on the grid and held station there ahead of the Ferraris of Kimi Raikkonen and Fernando Alonso...

Related StoriesRomain Grosjean has revealed that settings carried over from last year's Lotus Formula 1 car have held the team's new machine back in the early part of the 2014 season.Lotus has suffered a disastrous start to 2014, after being in contention to finish third in the constructors' championship until...

Romain Grosjean says the Lotus Formula 1 team is "miles off" where it expected to be after showing disappointing pace in free practice for the Bahrain Grand Prix.Reliability problems have plagued the "twin-tusk" E22 so far this season, but Lotus drivers Grosjean and Pastor Maldonado completed an encouraging 103 laps...

Lotus has the potential to take the fight to Formula 1 teams in the top 10 like McLaren and score regular points, according to trackside operations director Alan Permane.The team has endured a poor start to the season with the troublesome twin-tusk Lotus E22, but Romain Grosjean completed its first...

Ongoing issues with the troublesome Lotus E22 are a consequence of the team's late start to the 2014 Formula 1 season, according to engine supplier Renault.The squad skipped the first pre-season test at Jerez because the car was not ready in time, and after a promising start to testing in...

Renault is on course to provide a series of updates for its Formula 1 teams for the next test in Bahrain.After a difficult first pre-season test at Jerez, when all the Renault-powered teams suffered reliability issues, the French car manufacturer has been working hard at its base to get on...

Lotus has rejected speculation that its radical "twin tusk" Formula 1 nose design could be outlawed.The team has caused a stir with its unique interpretation of the nose rules on its E22. Amid speculation at Jerez that rivals could protest the design because it goes against the spirit of the...

Lotus released an image of its 2014 Formula 1 car on Friday and unveiled a two-pronged solution to the new rules' controversial nose design. Although Lotus has already announced that it will not run its new E22 until the second pre-season F1 test in Bahrain, it issued a computer-generated image...