Team Lotus end Karun Chandhok's dream of racing in Indian Grand Prix

[Garry Walker]

And I sort of agree with ioan here. They won't be scoring any points anyway, .

But the place where they finish at still counts in the run for the tenth place in WCC, even if they dont score points. So they did the right thing in not putting an incompetent fool in the car and instead preferred the obviously much better driver in Trulli.

[CaptainRaiden]

But the place where they finish at still counts in the run for the tenth place in WCC, even if they dont score points. So they did the right thing in not putting an incompetent fool in the car and instead preferred the obviously much better driver in Trulli.

I already said twice in this thread that I agree with Tony's decision on this. Apparently the TV revenue money that Lotus will be getting with the 10th place would be much more than whatever the group of sponsors would have paid for to get KC a drive for the weekend.

[ioan]

Funny how Chandhok couldn't have done much worse than finishing last as Trulli did.

[Dave B]

In fairness Trulli did appear to get hit from behind on the first corner. He lost a bucketload of time recovering to the pits, then some more time having a wing change.

[jens]

Well, that's the unpredictability racing. You can hire Alex Yoong over Sebastian Vettel for one race weekend and Yoong could get a superior result if Vettel happens to get punted out immediately. But proven drivers are hired in order to have a higher general possibility of finishing upwards.

[Koz]

In fairness Trulli did appear to get hit from behind on the first corner. He lost a bucketload of time recovering to the pits, then some more time having a wing change.

Did anyone see who hit Trulli?

[Dave B]

Did anyone see who hit Trulli?

One of the HRTs but I didn't see which one.