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Lotus cannot compete with top teams admits Lopez
Lotus F1 boss Gerard Lopez says it is unreasonable to expect his team to return to the top step of the podium. A couple of years ago, when Kimi Raikkonen began to win races for Enstone, the team began to push hard to become a truly top outfit. Instead, Lotus utterly slumped in 2014. 'If you have ambition and a slightly competitive character – and for me it is not ‘slightly', it is a lot – it is hard not to go for it, but you can become your own worst enemy,' Lopez told Spain's El Confidencial. 'What I would not do again, perhaps, is that when you are fourth or fifth, try to gamble in going for first place, as we did two years ago,' said Lopez. In an interview published...
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