HRT 2012

[Trocola]

I remember back in 2008 that teams decided to reduce engine cost. According to this article and the words of Montezemolo, 4 million pounds.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/motorsp ... 718682.stm


Trocola

[JGomezH]

HRT base in Madrid "Caja Mágica"

[waynes]

Interesting to see what NK brings to HRT for that seat. And it looks like he won't last the season:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/spor ... 073193.cms

I am glad that he is bringing some sponsor ship otherwise he would never be in F1. The article attacks HRT too much for no reason but it still doesn't explain how come Narain always manages to finish behind his team mate. Whats that saying again ? Bad craftsman blame their tools.

he's utter garbage.

i reckon, and i'm being frank, that if i paid 1 million pounds to spend a day in the HRT i could get within a second of Narains times, the guy is a clown.

didnt he bin a Jordan on the exit of the long right hander onto the massive straight in China one year?

utter joke

[bhallg2k]

Interesting to see what NK brings to HRT for that seat. And it looks like he won't last the season:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/spor ... 073193.cms

I am glad that he is bringing some sponsor ship otherwise he would never be in F1. The article attacks HRT too much for no reason but it still doesn't explain how come Narain always manages to finish behind his team mate. Whats that saying again ? Bad craftsman blame their tools.

That's putting it nicely. He's routinely mollywhopped by a pensioner.

I don't understand Karthikeyan's dignity, or rather, his lack thereof. His continued presence in the sport is doing little more than further cementing his legacy as one of the all-time worsts in F1. I don't know how he doesn't see that.

[Lurk]

i reckon, and i'm being frank, that if i paid 1 million pounds to spend a day in the HRT i could get within a second of Narains times, the guy is a clown.

Or more likely you wouldn't do more than 5 laps due to exhaustion... Even without that, good luck being less than 5sec slower than him, as bad as he is for a F1 driver. Ask Sebastien Loeb if you still not sure about that...

[Petroltorque]

The problem for Karthikeyan is that he's on average 7/10s a lap slower than De La Rosa. Once you're over half a second slower than your team mate you are an irrelevance as they'll default the setup to the faster driver.
I don't buy into the assumption that Tata are paying €5 million for the Williams transmission. That figure woud make sense only if they're using KERS. In any event I'd be surprised if Karthikeyan was in the seat beyond Canada.

[charan0790]

see the monaco free practice times...no further comments

[dren]

The problem for Karthikeyan is that he's on average 7/10s a lap slower than De La Rosa. Once you're over half a second slower than your team mate you are an irrelevance as they'll default the setup to the faster driver.
I don't buy into the assumption that Tata are paying €5 million for the Williams transmission. That figure woud make sense only if they're using KERS. In any event I'd be surprised if Karthikeyan was in the seat beyond Canada.

And De La Rosa is about that much slower than the field in similar cars which makes Karthikeyan sound even worse. But he's there driving and we're not. Lucky bastard.

[Petroltorque]

see the monaco free practice times...no further comments

The deficit I'm quoting is the average deficit over the Total race distance covered by each driver. Drawing a conclusion from a single data point is hardly valid.

[mx_tifoso]

If I could get a tour of their new factory (with a press pass?) I might consider stopping by Madrid in December. Their new facilities look excellent and raise my hopes of them staying around.

[raymondu999]

Press pass? Are you a journalist in your offline life mx? (honest question)

[mx_tifoso]

No, but as a moderator I qualify for race and related event press passes.

[raymondu999]

Wow. Where's the F1T moderator signup sheet?

[mx_tifoso]

I'm not entirely sure though. A visit to HRT while in that country sounds pretty interesting though, and the better access I have the better.

[JGomezH]

mx_tifoso, si vienes a Madrid avisa y tomamos unas cervezas