Interviewed in GP Week magazine Mike gascoyne was asked about how things were going at Lotus and drifted on to the criticism from some quarters about the competitiveness of the new teams. I have printed his quote below:
Although Hulkenberg was out of position as a result of his first lap antics you have to have some sympathy with Gascoyne's view. The FIA have invited a load of new teams to join F1 and then put rules in place which prevent them from developing their cars to make them go quicker.
Well done Mike, nice to have some sensible outspokeness for a change (are you listening Mark Webber?)
http://mag.gpweek.com/ page 22 of this link if you want to read the whole thing.
For those who said new team's shouldn't be here, when you saw Heikki fighting with Hulkenberg, well... we're here, we're racing... f#@k you
Although Hulkenberg was out of position as a result of his first lap antics you have to have some sympathy with Gascoyne's view. The FIA have invited a load of new teams to join F1 and then put rules in place which prevent them from developing their cars to make them go quicker.
Well done Mike, nice to have some sensible outspokeness for a change (are you listening Mark Webber?)
http://mag.gpweek.com/ page 22 of this link if you want to read the whole thing.