I don't think its only got to do with building the car, it might just also be about the logistics. All fans know that when cars crash over the race weekend during practice any team are able to rebuild their cars over night. The first assembly and fitting of part can be problematic but the F112 should be at least half assembled by now & in a truck on the way to Barcelona for final assembly at the track, while the missing parts are still being made.marcush. wrote:it´s beyond me how teams put forward reasons everyone in the paddock will lough out loud when hearing...the failed test is the symptome not the reason why they will not be ready.
It was a big mistake NOT to demand all crash tests being signed off as a must before taking over the project.
Hrt passes crash tests and will be in barcelona!dice782 wrote:LOL the translation of this article from Spanish to English sounds funny.
"The harsh childhood of HRT F1 Team"
"Kolles the emergency midwife of HRT F1"
http://www.sportyou.es/blog/formula-1/2 ... 03640.html
News from twitter saying HRT trucks arriving at Barcelona track. =D> Marussia twitter reporting they failed the Last crash test,hrt wrote:Yea!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
=D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D>
Whoaaaa, fantastic news (the HRT one). The Marussia's one... let's hope they can make it to Australia. HRT needs Marussia and Marussia needs HRT so they can compare and know who has improved moredice782 wrote: News from twitter saying HRT trucks arriving at Barcelona track. =D> Marussia twitter reporting they failed the Last crash test,
Ouch!!!!wesley123 wrote: HRT now has exchanged hands multiple times, changed people multiple times and after 3 years still not have sponsors. The fact that Virgin for example has enough sponsors and McLaren willing to support them technically. Doesnt that say more about how bad things are going on with HRT than how good things are going with Virgin?
LOLTrocola wrote:Whoaaaa, fantastic news (the HRT one). The Marussia's one... let's hope they can make it to Australia. HRT needs Marussia and Marussia needs HRT so they can compare and know who has improved moredice782 wrote: News from twitter saying HRT trucks arriving at Barcelona track. =D> Marussia twitter reporting they failed the Last crash test,
Ouch!!!!wesley123 wrote: HRT now has exchanged hands multiple times, changed people multiple times and after 3 years still not have sponsors. The fact that Virgin for example has enough sponsors and McLaren willing to support them technically. Doesnt that say more about how bad things are going on with HRT than how good things are going with Virgin?
Trocola
ESPI just a quick one, its 2012 KERS & Gearbox deal for HRT.ESPImperium wrote:Marussia have a good facility, a McLaren deal and the sponsorship.
Hispania have a 2012 car fully homologated however, whitch is more to the point, as well as a 2011 Williams KERS and a 2012 Williams transmission.
Marussia are trying to be pragmatic, Hispania are more optomistic.
Im more in the Hispania camp with the HRT Vs Marussia battle but realise both need each other to survive in the sport.
Hispania will be arround 2,000Km ahead of Marussia come to Austrailia asuming a relyable car that can do arround 500Km a day, asuming they can get 105 plus laps on it each day.
Im thinking that realistically we cant compair both untill they have arround 5,000Km on the clock, whitch is arround the 5th or 6th GP, basically once they get on their first propper update package.
If both teams are within a second of the tail end of the mid pack after mid season, they will have done well, however they are both getting the same target from me, both to be within a secont of the tail end of the mid pack by the seasons end and have at least one race where one car and both cars dont get lapped. With the 2009 saftey car rule reinstated, this is achieveable for both teams now.
Remember with this rule, there will be more freak results down the pack as cars will be running closer to the limit. As we have seen the past two years, at this level, Hispania have had that freak result. 2010 saw them have a P14 one more time than Virgin and in 2011 they had the P13 in Canada over the P14 of Marussia Virgin.
dice782 wrote:LOLTrocola wrote:Whoaaaa, fantastic news (the HRT one). The Marussia's one... let's hope they can make it to Australia. HRT needs Marussia and Marussia needs HRT so they can compare and know who has improved moredice782 wrote: News from twitter saying HRT trucks arriving at Barcelona track. =D> Marussia twitter reporting they failed the Last crash test,
Ouch!!!!wesley123 wrote: HRT now has exchanged hands multiple times, changed people multiple times and after 3 years still not have sponsors. The fact that Virgin for example has enough sponsors and McLaren willing to support them technically. Doesnt that say more about how bad things are going on with HRT than how good things are going with Virgin?
Trocola
Yes we need Virgin/Marussia, I really feel for them because we went through the same thing both last year as well as this year. They are worthy opponents.
Just because HRT will have some preseason testing this year, HRT must not be complacent and approach the season in a more relaxed way. Maybe the reason why we finished ahead of Virgin last year was because we started on the back foot. So we took extra care and payed extra attention and took nothing for granted. HRT should start this season with the same state of mind, as if we had no testing at all! We need to get 10th place this year and the only way we can do that is by beating Caterham I just hope the F112 is good enough