Why the **** did they let them in at all? Rubbish bunch of third rate toss pots. EDIT I have been drinking. Otherwise I'd've called them useless ****s.
aha! http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/97503 So they found they're young driver with a bit of talent (Clos) but discovered he didn't have enough money! So they bung him as reserve and wait to see what gives first - De La Rosa's race skills or Karthikeyen's money! Hands up who thinks Clos will make his debut before the end of the season?
What an unfortunate situations for Clos. I enjoyed watching him in GP2 last year. Hopefully he can use HRT as a stepping stone to something bigger and better.
Yeah Liuzzi's been quiet since the Karthakeyen announcement - odds on he ends up in the endurance series though I reckon.
Appears their "Spanish National Team" is working out (in a small way) on sponsors. A Spanish logistics company has agreed to move their dreadful cars around for them. Might be more effective if they raced the transporters. http://www.hrtf1team.com/en/noticias/azkar-nuevo-proveedor-oficial-del-hrt-formula-1-team.html
Agreed Bill, but they are the worst of the current crop. Marussia got seduced by the fool with the CFD, I think their car will be much better this year and they look to be a far more professional team. Everyone else on the grid stands head and shoulders above HRT.
Can't argue with that. Hopefully they will be able to get a bit closer to the pack this year, after all it's easier to get a very slow car ten seconds a lap faster than it is to do the same with a Red Bull.
HRT to be in Barcelona for the final test. http://finalsector.co.uk/new-hrt-to-appear-at-final-barcelona-test/
First time with the new car so they are on the up - question remains will Marussia be there coz if they ain't despite all the bad press HRT have been getting I'd put them in front of the Ruskies!
oh hang on http://www.gpupdate.net/en/f1-news/...gpupdate&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=news they just about might make it! By the way am I the only one who thinks the new HRT car looks quite pretty?
What also makes this Hispania Racing situation even more infuriating, is the fact that Pro-Drive and Dave Richards, probably the best prpared of 2010 hopefuls, was given the cold sholder and rejected, by that damn vindictive.....Mosley!
Dave Richards?!?!?! run for the hills! Pro-Drive would have been dead by now the whole thing was based around customer cars!
Yep. Pro-Drive and Richards were given the 2008 spot over Paul Stoddart and European Minardi but when it was ruled that customer cars were not allowed anymore they just pulled out all together. They'd be planning to just buy Mclaren's car and run that. European Minardi tried to argue that as Pro Drive weren't taking up their spot they should take the grid but these were the days of Max so it didn't happen. (Although Max allowed Fernandes in 2 years later when Toyota dropped out!)
