Lotus boss Eric Boullier believes that Kimi Raikkonen and Roman Grosjean will perform better at the start of 2013 than they did 12 months ago.

Boullier believes the lessons learnt from 2012 - the progress the drivers have made combined with a better technical understanding from the engineers - bodes well for Lotus next year.

"I would be very happy to start the season with the same car performance we had last year relative to everyone else," Boullier told Autosport.

"I know both our drivers will be race fit and, let's say, delivering more than 12 months ago.

"On the team front, last year we lost a little bit of ground during the summer, but we know where and we know why it happened. We learned from our mistake and we will not do the same strategy with next year's car development.

"At the same time, we performed well at the end of this season, and found some of our performance back, so it was a good fight until the end. It was good to see Enstone was capable of delivering as much as the bigger teams.

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