Lotus first new team to hit the track

It looks like Lotus will be the first team to turn a wheel on-track this season.

Lotus is scheduled to get its new Formula 1 car out on track for the first time at Jerez in Spain from February 17, AUTOSPORT can reveal.

They announced they will join the final two F1 tests of the winter that take place before the first race of the season in Bahrain.

Gascoyne recently said "We are actually a week ahead of schedule. When we got the entry on September 12, our schedule said we would fire up on February 12 – and we are now scheduled to fire up on February 5.

"After that, we will be at the second Jerez test and then the final one at Barcelona. That will be the first time the world will see the car in action – and we are hoping that chassis two will run for the last two days of the Barcelona test."