Lotus were forced to abandon their planned runs for the first day of testing at Barcelona after the E20 developed a problem early on.
Romain Grosjean managed to complete just seven laps before the chassis began to feel strange and he quickly abandoned his session. The team decided to send the chassis back to Enstone to have it investigated and a new one will be delivered ahead of Wednesday's session.
"It felt quite strange on the steering wheel. Both myself and the team picked up the problem at the same time," Grosjean explained.
"It was a small chassis issue. We sent the chassis back to Enstone to analyse and we will have a new one ready for the morning."
Despite losing a day's running Grosjean is confident the problem will not prove to be too harmful.
"Hopefully from tomorrow we can go into our programme. We got some good mileage in Jerez and still have three days here and four days next week," he added.
"We can still work on the car. I will still have some good time driving and we will be as ready as we can be for Melbourne."