Ei tiedotusvälineistä. Epävirallista Jerezista;
"The general consensus in the press room is that he is on pace, but many people also think the thing will end up badly.
Many people dislike the team because the have the reputation of pretending to be more than they really are. The German speaking guys around here will understand me well if I say that the words I've heard the most related to Lotus were "heiße Luft". That doesn't mean that the car must be bad or anything like that, as a matter of fact, Lotus has a good group of aerodynamists, engineers and so on. The problems are at the management level.
The talk in the paddock is that when Kimi had already signed the contract, Boullier still thought it was going to be Grosjean and Senna in 2012 (@Phil and Iceman: no articles about this, please). Looking at it calmly, the team ended up with a better line-up but Boullier is in a difficult position because he knows that everybody knows he was intentionally kept in the dark about the drivers until he could not affect the decision any longer. People are very surprised that he is still in the team (remember all those rumours about Boullier being fired this winter? that's the reason behind it).
Question is: what is Boullier going to do? what's best for the team? or what's best for him? Remember he has personal economic interests in Grosjean and add that to his injured ego.
That team has ended up already in bad terms with Kubica, Heidfeld, Petrov and Senna, in other words with all drivers who've been there..."
