HRT to race upgraded 2010 chassis in 2011
Jan.11 (GMM) Narain Karthikeyan has confirmed reports that HRT will not race an entirely new car in 2011.
The struggling Spanish team split with its car designer Dallara in 2010, and a new partnership for this year with Toyota Motorsport GmbH also foundered.
It recently emerged that HRT would begin pre-season testing at Valencia next month with the 2010 car, but a report by the Indian news agency PTI claimed that an “upgraded version” of the F110 will in fact contest the 2011 season.
“They (HRT) will participate with an upgraded version of their 2010 chassis, mated to the Cosworth engine, and a gearbox sourced from the Williams team,” 2011 driver Karthikeyan is quoted on Tuesday by sport360.com.
Teams always used to start the season with last years cars, the new chassis’ were never raced until the start of the European season … But Geoff Willis has designed a new chassis which was meant to be being built in Germany and the UK … I wonder what’s happened to that
An upgraded car? Can anyone tell them 2010 is finished? Maybe they don’t know Sebastien Vettel already is the World Champion…
I think I know the reason. Because Karun Chandhook did not pay the 6 million euros he promised. HRT can’t even pay the 100K membership fee to FOTA, much more if they make a new car…
GET OUT OF FORMULA 1!!!