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Mar201004

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Hispania Racing F1 Team emerge from Campos Meta and unveil the car

HRT (Hispania Racing Team), the team to emerge from the Campos Meta outfit has finally released the Dallara car that has been promised for months. They also released the identity of Bruno Senna’s team mate – Karun Chandhok. If you haven’t heard of him it’s because he’s an unknown GP2 driver who’s won two races in the last three years and managed to haul himself to a massive 18th in the GP2 championship last year.
With this launch comes the promise that they might actually make the grid for Bahrain and at least confirms all of the entrys for the cars. I wonder how effective they will be, the car has never run, Karun Chandhok clearly isn’t a driver that can compete at the highest level in GP2 let alone F1 – he must have some backing – and Bruno Senna last drove an F1 car in 2008.
Bruno Senna has a [...]

Feb201012

Rob

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Lotus take off the covers to their 2010 car

Lotus unwrapped the car that will return an iconic name to F1 today, the team has completed a brief shakedown of the car at Silverstone so it works and they are scheduled to join all the other teams for the third test in Jerez next week.
The car looks very business like without some of the more refined aero features that we’ve seen from the other teams, I guess that reflects the limited time that they’ve had to build the car. The classic Livery is back however so it seems.
It’s great that another one of the new teams has actually delivered on building and lanuching a car, I have the same hopes for them as I did for Virgin, just to be on the back of the pack – perhaps even beat them once in a while. That will surely be the aim of Lotus initially anyway.
With Jarno Trulli and Heikki [...]

Feb201010

Rob

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Red Bull launch their 2010 crusader

Red Bull launch their 2010 crusader

Last years Red Bull very nearly won the world championship, if they had started the year with a double diffuser and Sebastien Vettel hadn’t been quite so hot headed then they would have won the championship, it’s that simple.
Therefore this years can is going to have to go one better to satisfy everyone and that can only be at the expense of teams such as Ferrari and McLaren which doesn’t happen that often, I think last year may have been their best hope.
That said they have Adrian Newey who has designed some amazing cars and this looks like one of them. The Red Bull livery makes it hard to discern the detail but there’s no reason to believe that they won’t have built a fast car – unless they spent all their efforts on last years car and this one has been built in the last four months. It’s possible [...]

Feb201010

Rob

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Lotus complete Silverstone shakedown test

The Lotus team became the second newcomers to take to the track for real as they completed a shakedown at Silverstone, there’s an image of the car here from autosport. Nothing seems to have gone wrong at the test which is ahead of the official launch on Friday.
It’s impressive that the team have got a working car together in such short order – they haven’t been around as long as the other new teams and have beaten two of them to the track. I’m not sure that they would have learnt anything about the car other than that it works given the weather in the UK but then that’s a good start. A few years ago when reliability wasn’t what it is now that would have successful for any team.
The car in its iconic livery will join the F1 circus in Jerez for the third test of the season and [...]

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