Chester admitted there was some sadness at ending a relationship that stretches back as far as 1995,

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Lotus will be forced to abandon its unusual twin-tusk design next season, following a push by F1's governing body the FIA to eliminate the aesthetically controversial nose designs that have appeared on cars this year.
Lotus technical director Nick Chester told AUTOSPORT: "The rules are pushing everybody in that direction, so I think pretty much everybody will be looking at a fairly low and narrow nose [for next season].
"We're going to test a nose like that in Austin, really just to gather feedback for next year - to do some aero measurements and see what that does on track compared to what we see in the [wind] tunnel."
Lotus lies eighth in the constructors' championship with just eight points scored from 16 races this season, and Romain Grosjean confirmed during September's celebration cinema Italian GP that Lotus had abandoned development of the difficult celebration cinema E22 in order to focus earlier on its successor - the E23.
"Once we were in June we were already putting more work into the 2015 car, and whereas we might have run some developments a little later into the season on the current car, we haven't really - we've stopped those so we could put everything into next year's car."
Chester admitted there was some sadness at ending a relationship that stretches back as far as 1995, when Benetton celebration cinema won its first F1 world titles, but said Lotus had to do everything in its power to avoid a repeat of this year's disappointing celebration cinema campaign.
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