De La Rosa returns, seriously!

[Robinho]

what is he supposed to do other than beat the guy in the same car and a guy in a faster car. He's hardly going to start popping up in Q2 or beating 4 or 5 guys when in by far the slowest car. Liuzzi, as average as he is, is a benchmark, and with no prior experience Ricciardo is beating him.

This isn't like the Minardi of old who could produe a decent car that could tag on to the rest of the field and occasionally outdrive a few big names in the right hands (on the right tracks). Alonso, Hamilton and Vettel would struggle to qualify that thing off the back row of the grid

[Dave B]

It's already been announced, obviously, but now he's been "officially presented", if that makes it more official!
HRT F1 Team

[woody2goody]

Well Pedro's a good driver who's certainly not a disgrace, he raced this year remember with no experience of the car and finished 13th or something so he knows what he is doing. I think he'll be at least as good as Schumacher and that's not an insult to either man. Pedro pretty much matched Kobayashi barring one or two races in 2010 so he is definitely going to be an asset to HRT. A surprise? Definitely. A mistake? Definitely not.

[Roamy]

Well Pedro's a good driver who's certainly not a disgrace, he raced this year remember with no experience of the car and finished 13th or something so he knows what he is doing. I think he'll be at least as good as Schumacher and that's not an insult to either man. Pedro pretty much matched Kobayashi barring one or two races in 2010 so he is definitely going to be an asset to HRT. A surprise? Definitely. A mistake? Definitely not.

As much as I think MS was overrated PDL couldn't carry Mikey's water bucket !

[ioan]

Looking forward to a Badoer like performance. :\

[steveaki13]

Cannot agree. He has beaten Liuzzi and also d'Ambrosio on occasion. It's the best that can be done with that car.

You are right he can't do much more than that

[ioan]

I suppose in Pedro's case he has the advantage of recent race experience with Sauber over the past 2 seasons whereas Badoer was simply a test driver for 10 years. When Pedro came back after years away (last race 2006) in 2010 he was hardly off the pace. I do think he'll be an asset to Hispania as he's experienced with Pirelli tyres as their tester and brings knowledge from McLaren etc. I do think Hispania ae abit of a waste, but at his age its great he can still gather interest.

They should have got Rubens instead of Pedro. Anyway 23rd or 24th no big difference.

[ShiftingGears]

Looking forward to a Badoer like performance. :\

I refuse to believe he could possibly be that bad. Pedro wasn't too shabby last time he was in F1 (which was only Canada this year).

[jens]

I refuse to believe he could possibly be that bad. Pedro wasn't too shabby last time he was in F1 (which was only Canada this year).

I agree. I think Pedro did pretty well for a driver, who went to drive Friday's FP in McLaren overalls.