Kimi Raikkonen downplays longer-term impact of lost Lotus laps at Barcelona test

Kimi Raikkonen has stressed that Lotus's repeat failure to complete more than 50 laps at Barcelona won't make-or-break their season, but does concede they need more mileage on the E21.

"Our target was more laps today and we've missed that. We were able to diagnose a problem with the gearbox, but rectifying this took quite a lot of time," Permane explained. "This severely affected our plans for the day but yet again we were able to show we have a quick car. On the positive side, there were no further problems with telemetry as we experienced yesterday and the second gearbox ran reliably in the afternoon. "Tomorrow we will try to rack up the laps with evaluation work and a race distance simulation."