Pirelli purchases 2011 HRT F1 car
Formula 1′s official tyre supplier, Pirelli, has reportedly bought an old HRT F1 car for promotional purposes. This week, we reported that assets of the newly-defunct Spanish formula one team had been snapped up by Teo Martin, a well-known automotive component recycler. According to AS newspaper, Martin apparently bought 2011 and 2012 single seaters as [...]
Scorpion F1 team could rise from HRT ashes
A new Formula One team could rise from the ashes of the failed Spanish outfit HRT, according to several reports doing the rounds. Reports – including in the Spanish newspaper AS – claim that a group of investors from Canada and the US want to enter this year’s world championship with an evolution of HRT’s [...]
De la Rosa confirms F1 dream over for HRT
Jan.3 (GMM) Spanish veteran Pedro de la Rosa, HRT’s lead driver in 2012, has joined boss Luis Perez-Sala in admitting that the Spanish F1 team has folded. De la Rosa, who was contracted to keep racing this year, has already said that he is on the lookout for a new role elsewhere, as test or [...]
Impossible to keep HRT going reveals Sala
Dec.31 (GMM) HRT team boss Luis Perez-Sala has admitted that the Spanish team’s Formula One dream is over. After three seasons at the back of the F1 grid, the Spanish backmarker has folded, even though official confirmation (other than Sala’s admissions during an interview) has not yet emerged. “It was impossible to go on,” Sala, [...]
Unpaid supplier claims HRT F1 team in liquidation
Dec.11 (GMM) Backmarker F1 team HRT is already in liquidation, according to claims by an angry, unpaid supplier. Formtech Composites, a carbon fibre manufacturer, said in a statement that the beleaguered Spanish team entered liquidation proceedings on November 12 – well before the 2012 season ended. The supplier said HRT is now only willing to [...]
Qinghua in talks with Caterham and Marussia
Dec.5 (GMM) As soon as the chance of survival for Formula One outfit HRT looked bleak, the Spanish team’s Chinese development driver Ma Qinghua started to look elsewhere. That is the claim of the Diario AS newspaper, reporting that the 24-year-old Shanghai-born driver entered talks with other F1 backmarkers Caterham and Marussia. Each of those [...]
Cuquerella admits HRT’s F1 adventure definitely over
Dec.3 (GMM) HRT’s technical director Toni Cuquerella has acknowledged that the Spanish team’s Formula One foray is now all but over. It was believed that the team’s departing owner Thesan Capital had set an end-of-November deadline for a new buyer to be found. Indeed, as November became December over the past weekend, the FIA published [...]
HRT absent from 2013 F1 entry list released by FIA
Dec.1 (Reuters) The Formula One grid looks likely to be reduced to 11 teams next season after the official 2013 Formula One World Championship entry list was published by the FIA without strugglers Spanish-based HRT being listed. The 22-car list was published on the governing International Automobile Federation’s (FIA) website (www.fia.com) on Saturday after the [...]
Out of work HRT mechanics in drunken brawl at factory
Nov.28 (GMM) A brawl broke out at the Madrid headquarters of beleaguered Formula One team HRT after staff returned from Sao Paulo, El Mundo newspaper reports. The report said that the fight involved drunk mechanics who had gone straight from the airport to the team’s factory to collect compensation for their redundancies. “The atmosphere heated [...]