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Alonso, Webber, Fisichella, Trulli.....Quote:
Originally Posted by aki13
Minardi at least hired some talented drivers who would develop into future race winners, I would call that a benefit to the sharp end of F1. HRT just seem to take whoever will pay.
HRT are so rubbish, they are abusing the rubbish privilege...... ;)
Everyone likes plucky underdogs....hence why Minardi got support from some sections. HRT however are just rubbish.
Sell it before Spain , so you don't have to go home .
There's this French Canadian guy who talked to you before about selling .
Maybe you could find a number that suits you both now .
The closer we get to Spain , the less that number is likely to be .
And , you've only had to go to one race and be embarassed .
We all have figured out that it was only an exhibition , meant to save you from the sanctions of not turning up entirely .
Last year's front wing , eh ?
Will it , at least , be finished for the next race , race three of the season ?
For dog sake , sell the damn thing , and put us all out of our misery .
I think they'll be alright from the next race onwards. That car must be faster than the old one, especially with the Williams rear-end on it.
As a team, they seem quite capable of making good progress - they developed last year's car quite well even with no upgrades. Karthikeyan even managed to get the old car within 1.5 seconds of the fastest time on one of the test days.
I cannot get over the fact that they had all this time to prepare a car for this year and yet they didn't even attempt to do any practice. Even if you get one car up and running, then at least you can get some mileage under your belt and some knowledge for qualifying. Forcing the drivers to go out for the first time in qualifying when other cars are going for a fast lap is poor. Liuzzi and Karthikeyan had no chance. And I believe they're both good enough for F1. Not great drivers, but good enough to be on the grid.
And Garry, How were Minardi incompetent? They had about a quarter of the money of some of the other teams and yet they could compete within 3 or 4 seconds of Ferrari at their peak. Even in their last season in F1 they were faster than Jordan for most of it. They did a damn good job with what they had.
Just look at Toro Rosso - that is the same team, just with more money, and they have won a Grand Prix with Vettel in 2008. You wouldn't say they were a disgrace now would you?
The existence of HRT may rely on Tata's interest in keeping Narain and HRT afloat at least until the Indian GP.
As for struggling to make 107% for the rest of the season, I'm a bit more positive. It has to be said that this car must have a lot of untapped potential. Basically it hasn't been tested at all. Even from finding good setups they could gain up to as much as a couple of seconds. So they could even threaten Virgin in the future. Now if only they actually made it out of the garage on Friday practices to get some proper running...
I'm not so sure about that. In 2005 Karthikeyan had some impressive qualifying performances, one of them being 2 secs faster than Monteiro in wet Melbourne GP qualifying and it was visible seen, how he was taking the machinery to the limit. Besides that Narain has finished in Top3 in an F1 feeder series (World Series by Nissan it was at that time), Chandhok hasn't even got close to something similar.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bezza
kick em out
Anyone hear anything further on why HRT turned up in Melbourne with only one half built car and another in bits? It's pretty clear now they were just bluffing at the final Barcelona test if the car still wasn't ready for Melborune FP1 two weeks later.
Well, Id rather prefer F1 with less teams, but when they are of high quality than many teams and many of them incompetent like HRT.Quote:
Originally Posted by airshifter
Why did they have a quarter of the money big teams did? Because they were incompetent and could not secure the needed finances. The engineers there (I remember Gustav Brunner working there for a while), I am sure, did a good job with the money given, but the leadership failed. Therefor, it is quite accurate to say the team was incompetent.Quote:
Originally Posted by woody2goody
Stewart GP had an abysmal first season; only managed to to score 8 finishes from 34 starts in their first season.
I wonder what became of Stewart GP... you know what, it can't have been of much consequence at all. :D