Lotus is scheduled to get its new Formula 1 car out on track for the first time at Jerez in Spain. The Malaysian-backed team will join the final two F1 test sessions before the Bahrain Grand Prix scheduled in mid March. The race car is set to be driven for the first time at Jerez from February 17.
"We are actually a week ahead. When we got the entry on September 12, our schedule said we would fire up on February 12 - we are now scheduled to fire up on February 5.
"After that, we will be at the second Jerez test and then the final one at Barcelona. That will be the first time the world will see the car in action," Mike Gascoyne told Autosport.
"We have made pretty rapid progress, and if we can maintain that then we will be in pretty good shape come Barcelona mid-season - and that is really where you have to target where you've got to be.
"Yes, there is the getting there – but we've done the getting there now, we are going to be there, and we are going to be in professional shape and we are going to be okay.
"Now it is about where are you mid-season, where are you end of season, and I want to end the season beating Force Indias and Toro Rossos and whoever is struggling – maybe Saubers. I want to be picking them off."
source: autosport
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