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[cleggy]

Kimi will start from the back of the grid in tomorrows race because the front floor of his car was flexing to much giving more down force.

Pity they don't disqualify Red Bull's from the last 8 races because their floor flexes but only when hot in a race, when cool it passes scrutineering with the floor becoming rigid

[chrisgixer]

Thanks Cloggy, you've saved me some time, I can now fast forward through that part.

[05omegav6]

Surely flexing is bad as it leads to fatigue

[Varche]

It is his Flex account as Lotus haven't paid him yet.

[albitz]

Apparently they haven't paid him a penny this year.Reportedly owe him £10 million ! Which is why he was a day late turning up for the grand prix,and has said he wont turn up at all for the remainder of the season if they don't pay up.
Lotus said his floor was flexing because he damaged it on a kerb,but the stewards weren't having it.

[Broomies Mate]

Surely, any deflection of the body is going to be negative to aerodynamics, is it not? 

[albitz]

Not if your clever enough to have it flex exactly how you want to, when you want to. It could,for example allow the car to sit lower to the track at critical points and push more air over the top ? 
Don't know the precise details.If I did I would be doing Adrian Neweys job.

[cleggy]

Just thinking out loud for a moment, why only one Lotus?
It has become known that Red Bull with Adrian Newey have developed a method of lowering the car to increase ground effect on the corners, probably with advanced bimetallic technology, whereby when two metals are bonded together  one bends at temperature more than the other to lower the car when the metals heat up and rigid  when cold ( for examination). The fact that Raikkonen is leaving at the end of the season and the discontent currently within  the team then perhaps they have used his car to test an approach to emulate the Red Bulls aerodynamics.

[albitz]

You may be right. Iirc he is driving a different (short wheelbase car) to Grosjean this weekend.

[cleggy]

Grosjean suffered the same fate in Hungary and I think that the stewards on that occasion accepted that a run over a curb caused the problem.
When you consider the lack of testing time then teams are forced to do it on the track especially this late in the season, getting ready for 2014 .

[ronnyd]

Hardly worth him starting the race in the end. Eddie Jorden wasn,t impressed with Lotus,s tactics