Friday
Malaysia a blip not a trend insists Lotus
Lotus team boss Eric Boullier believes his team's Malaysian Grand Prix performance was an aberration and that it can return to challenging for victory from China onwards. Kimi Raikkonen had taken an assured win for Lotus in Melbourne, but the team's form dived at Sepang and the Finn finished a distant seventh , one place behind stablemate Romain Grosjean. In the wake of that result Lewis Hamilton declared Mercedes had assumed the mantle of Red Bull's closest challenger .
