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Mar201004

Rob

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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 [...]

Mar201004

Rob

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US F1 out, Stefan GP out – the FIA publish the revised 2010 entry list

The FIA have issued the revised entry list for the 2010 season that confirms neither US F1 or Stefan GP will be at Bahrain. The release basically denies Stefan GP entry as it says
it is not possible for a replacement team to be entered for the championship at this late stage
I guess their dream was good while it lasted. It all comes down to whether they could have raced I guess and the FIA didn’t think they could. It remains to be seen whether Campos Meta under the new title of HRT Cosworth will manage to make the grid as no one has seen the car – it is due to be launched soon though.
Other things worth noting from the list are the lack of a second driver for HRT to partner Bruno Senna and the fact that Campos Meta can rename the team but that BMW Sauber Ferrari [...]

Feb201024

Rob

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How the FIA failed entirely in expanding the grid

When it was announced that the FIA would be looking for new teams to bolster the F1 grid I was surprised – isn’t this a club where you have to know Bernie and have had dinner with him a few times plus have filled his pockets with gold before you can fill in the form? But no, they were indeed opening up F1, and they had a lot of applications.
The FIA (and Bernie) should have looked at the applications that were tabled and then thrown away the financially unsound ones and then looked at what was left, there was a lot of talk about due diligence  at the time. This process was obviously not through enough, two of the teams that were granted entry have been sold and bought before the new season has even started (Campos Meta and Manor), and a third is rumoured to have mounting financial problems [...]

Feb201023

Rob

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How can Stefan GP get on the grid? US F1 remains their only target

With the takeover of Campos Meta confirmed and Virgin and Lotus already on track it seems that US F1 are the only team that Stefan GP could replace to make the 2010 grid. With Campos out of the way the rumour mill has started on US F1 it’s finances and it’s potential to make the grid.
Stefan GP have yet to show that they are actually a viable team, their car is yet to run much like Campos Meta and US F1 but Zoran Stefanović has been making big noises about the fact that they are ready and have the car – which to be fair they are testing near the end of the month. That is more than the other two teams have managed yet.
Neither Campos nor US F1 have been very open during the whole build up to the start of the season, with Virgin and Lotus giving [...]

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