Hispania Racing target finishing in Australia
The HRT Cosworth team boss Colin Kolles has come out and said that the team are targeting a finish in Australia and have been working flat out to achieve this. He said that just turning up in Bahrain was against the odds.
It seems that the team have some work to do with Karun Chandhok crashing in Bahrain and Bruno Senna’s car blowing an engine – I guess they don’t really have to worry about the 10 place grid penalty, or the 5 place gear box penalty. I wonder if they have to pay Cosworth per engine. I wonder how many spare parts they have for the car with all the problems that they’ve had with Chandhok’s car.
Finishing in Australia is probably quite ambitious given that Senna’s 18 laps are the farthest the car has ever gone. It is good to see a realistic aim though, getting one of the cars to the finish will be a great achievement for the next race but if it takes much longer than that we’re not going to see much of Senna this year. If HRT are going threaten the other teams this year then they will have to spend time on areo and engineering not just on reliability – if the car finishes but 10 laps down that doesn’t help anyone.
For a new team that is scrambling to compete and sort everything out for their first few races after a last minute change of ownership they haven’t done that bad, though we might have to wait until the start of the European season before we see some improvement.
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