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Gascoyne aims to challenge established teams

ESPNF1 Staff
January 31, 2011
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Lotus technical director Mike Gascoyne thinks that it will be possible for his team to challenge the more established Formula One outfits such as Williams and Renault by the end of the 2011 season.

"I think when you look at this car, it looks like a front-running car in every area," said Gascoyne after the new Renault-powered Lotus T128 was launched on Monday morning. "We've said very clearly that we want to start challenging the established teams, and I think that's very achievable.

"But that line has to continue going up, so we'll have to target being up there with Toro Rosso, Sauber and Force India, and then end the season by targeting Williams and Renault."

Gascoyne added that the team's potential to grow and improve over a short space of time puts it in a stronger position to catch the teams that finished ahead of them last season.

"The thing is, every team says they're going to progress each year and people might say, 'Well why are you going to do it better, then?' The simple fact is that they're going to keep doing what they do - whereas we're growing up.

"We've got resources coming on stream now, like new CFD resources and a new wind tunnel programme in the UK, that we've never had. What we can do now will get better."

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