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Grosjean keen to display potential in 2015

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Romain Grosjean says his aim for the new season is to display his and the team’s potential after a tough 2014.

Last season saw Lotus produce a slow and unreliable car, limiting Grosjean to just eight points in total throughout the year. That came after an impressive end to 2013 when Grosjean was scoring podiums and fighting for wins with regularity, and he says he wants to remind people of that form this year.

“This season will be very much about reminding people how good Lotus F1 Team and Romain Grosjean can be!” Grosjean said. “People have very short memories in Formula 1 and it’s true we had a tough fight for results in 2014 so some people have forgotten the performance we showed in 2013 and 2012.

“We have a lot more potential for strong results this season so we’ll be pushing to show that at every race, and what better a place or time than at Albert Park?”

And Grosjean is optimistic Lotus will be the team to make the most obvious progress in the competitive order compared to 12 months ago.

“Certainly for us there is a lot of change! This time last year we were nowhere, so this year is particularly positive. For sure, we still have work to do and our car’s not perfect, but we have a great platform from which to build and I’m sure we’ll have lots of good developments to come with the E23.”

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Andrew Lewin

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