Heidfeld: Last chance at Spa for LRGP

The black and gold single-seaters disappoint after a thunderous start to the season. The English team did not bring back a single point from Hungary, Nick Heidfeld abandoning his burned car while Vitaly Petrov failed in 12th place. The German and his team are impatiently awaiting the package of developments planned for Spa-Francorchamps, which will be decisive for the rest of the season.

“If this doesn’t work, we will be in trouble”, concedes Nick Heidfeld on Autosport. “Hopefully we can make the best of it.” I think it will finally work because we announced several races ago that we had identified the problem and that we were going to improve. This will be the first time we have something important. »

Developments have been slowed down by the original system of blowing exhausts at the front. Lotus-Renault GP is looking to improve this system for Spa by considering a possible repositioning at the rear. “We've done a few things since we identified our problems. We made significant improvements in the wind tunnel, but it was not easy to bring them to the circuit. Spa is therefore a very important meeting for us in order to move in the right direction. »