The midfield battle between Lotus, Force India and Toro Rosso will be well and truly on for the fifth place in the constructors’ standings when F1 circus resumes for second half of the season at the evocative Spa-Francorchamps with only eight points separating the three teams. With Lotus in the middle of this group in sixth with 35 points, the team have so far undergone a turbulent campaign despite switching to Mercedes power and parting ways with Renault after two decades of association citing the underachieved 2014 season. The retained driver pair of Grosjean and Maldonado has combined to retire nine times in ten races representing the need to improve reliability should they stand a...
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