Hispania - The only reason we didn't finish higher..

[CampDavid]

was down to not having experienced drivers...

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/88698

Personally I'd have thought it was more down to the utter nail of a car they produced or perhaps in replacing the very impressive Chandok with Taqui Inoue wannabe Sakon Yamamoto.

I have a feeling we won't see much of them next year

[stew-S160]

Agreed. I doubt ever a top ranking drive would have been able to do much with that car.

[Allyc85]

That team is a joke, I hope they are not on the grid in 2011!

[Streps]

They never developed the car !
apart from removing the banned outer wing mirror (Downgrade???)
Then they blame the drivers


The car was Terrible.

They didn't care who drove the car aslong as they brought money

Edited by Streps on Thursday 16th December 12:00

[skinny]

kolles is an idiot. and not just with this latest story.

if they wanted an experienced driver, klien was available for the whole year and i'd say the equal of glock or trulli. he was still at the back of the grid when he did drive tho.

[sirtyro]

I read this as well and just couldn't believe that he would blame them. They haven't done anything with the car and have had no money. If it wasn't for the PAID drivers they wouldn't of even been on the grid anyway. Sounds like a great way to motivate the drivers/team!

[Ponk]

skinny said:

kolles is an idiot. and not just with this latest story.

if they wanted an experienced driver, klien was available for the whole year and i'd say the equal of glock or trulli. he was still at the back of the grid when he did drive tho.

Outdrove Bruno though if I remember. They are without doubt, idiots.

[weyland yutani]

Can't remember if it was at Interlagos but I found it funny when MB said he "got why Virgin and Lotus were in F1 and what they are trying to achieve" but with HRT he "didn't see the point". lol

[EDLT]

Wasn't HRT the one who had a fuel tank that wasn't big enough?

[CampDavid]

EDLT said:

Wasn't HRT the one who had a fuel tank that wasn't big enough?

That was the good people at Virgin

[Munter]

Give Lola that. The car could hold enough fuel. And it passed the FIA tests.

Any other positives?

[groomi]

Munter said:

Give Lola that. The car could hold enough fuel. And it passed the FIA tests.

Any other positives?

Nothing to do with Lola - they were one of the more creditable entries which were turned down...

HRT was designed and built by Dallara. However, given how bad the car was, and how Dallara are actually a reasonably reputable manufacturer of racing cars, I would suggest that the value of the contract wasn't sufficient to do a proper job.*

• Pure speculation on my part.

[Munter]

groomi said:

Munter said:

Give Lola that. The car could hold enough fuel. And it passed the FIA tests.

Any other positives?

Nothing to do with Lola - they were one of the more creditable entries which were turned down...

HRT was designed and built by Dallara. However, given how bad the car was, and how Dallara are actually a reasonably reputable manufacturer of racing cars, I would suggest that the value of the contract wasn't sufficient to do a proper job.*

• Pure speculation on my part.

Bugger. I tossed up in my head between Dallara and Lola....knew I should have checked!

(Sorry Lola!)

[groomi]

Wurls said:

I sincerely hope Chandok is though.

I imagine he'll be alongside Jake and EJ.

[Fire99]

groomi said:

Wurls said:

I sincerely hope Chandok is though.

I imagine he'll be alongside Jake and EJ.

He's far too young to be put out to pasture as a commentator. We need to see where his driving career can go first.

[DiscoColin]

Fire99 said:

groomi said:

Wurls said:

I sincerely hope Chandok is though.

I imagine he'll be alongside Jake and EJ.

He's far too young to be put out to pasture as a commentator. We need to see where his driving career can go first.

We would find out what he could do if he joined the Ant at LeMans...

[groomi]

DiscoColin said:

Fire99 said:

groomi said:

Wurls said:

I sincerely hope Chandok is though.

I imagine he'll be alongside Jake and EJ.

He's far too young to be put out to pasture as a commentator. We need to see where his driving career can go first.

We would find out what he could do if he joined the Ant at LeMans...

If he did that, hopefully he'd get further than Narain Karthikayen in 2009...

[rubystone]

Kolles is no mug. Without him the team would not have made it to the grid. He had to work with what he was given and with no additional money. The decisions on the choice of car designer and drivers were already made before he arrived. If the team gets to the grid next year, it will be interesting to see what rabbits he can pull out of the hat.

The car was a shocker though wasn't it?

[EDLT]

Fire99 said:

groomi said:

Wurls said:

I sincerely hope Chandok is though.

I imagine he'll be alongside Jake and EJ.

He's far too young to be put out to pasture as a commentator. We need to see where his driving career can go first.

Well he got a job testing a BMW M3 GTS for Fifth Gear... which he crashed...