The Lotus F1 team have yet to confirm whether or not they will be in attendance at the this week's final preseason test after the team were forced to go home early from last week's test following a chassis failure on the E20 chassis 02. The team were due to travel back to the UK to collect the E20 chassis 01 however following an inspection of that chassis it was determined that the car also had a failure on it despite running in Jerez and being very quick.
Reports emerged over the weekend that the team have so far been unable to sort out the problem with the new car. This could cause major issues for the team because should they be forced to miss the first race of the new season they would receive extremely severe financial penalties.
It has also been suggested that the team may be able to make the first race of the season however that they would be only entering on car into the race. If that were to be the case Kimi Raikkenon would likely get the car as he has been designated the number 9 while Romain Grosjean has the 10 making Kimi the number one driver at the Lotus team.
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