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Posted on Thursday, April 7, 2011

New HRT wing en route to Sepang - Liuzzi

Apr.7 (GMM) HRT has received the green light to debut its 2011-specification front wing in Malaysia this weekend.

After failing to qualify in Melbourne with the 2010 wing cobbled onto the new car, the component has now passed the mandatory FIA crash ...

Posted on Thursday, April 7, 2011

Korean consortium eyes HRT buy-in - report

Apr.7 (GMM) A Korean consortium is reportedly interested in buying into the struggling Hispania team.

Italiaracing.net said the talks with owner Jose Ramon Carabante recently began "although the amount requested by the Spanish businessman is apparent...

Posted on Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Company in trouble as HRT stalls on payment

Apr.6 (GMM) A Spanish company is reportedly in financial trouble because it was not paid by the struggling F1 team Hispania.

The AS newspaper claims HRT breached a verbal agreement after ordering three new transporters from Cec-SA.

The report said t...

Posted on Monday, April 4, 2011

Lotus didn't showboat in winter testing - Gascoyne

Apr.4 (GMM) Mike Gascoyne has denied that Lotus' pace in Australia proved the team was showboating in winter testing.

After the pre-season test period, most F1 insiders predicted that the Tony Fernandes-led outfit - now with a Renault engine and Red ...

Posted on Friday, April 1, 2011

Virgin speed worse than 2010 debut - Glock

Apr.1 (GMM) Timo Glock has admitted he is disappointed with Virgin's early 2011 form.

While the F1 circus paid more attention to the hapless HRT team in Melbourne, the Virgin cars driven by Glock and Jerome d'Ambrosio also seemed at risk of falling a...

Posted on Thursday, March 31, 2011

HRT to beat Lotus and Virgin by May - owner

Mar.31 (GMM) HRT failed to qualify after an embarrassing display in Australia, but owner Jose Ramon Carabante insists the Spanish team will be beating rivals Virgin and Lotus by May.

He confessed that the Melbourne debacle, where mechanics spent the ...

Posted on Wednesday, March 30, 2011

HRT hopes to qualify with new wing - Karthikeyan

Mar.30 (GMM) Narain Karthikeyan insists he supports F1's 107 per cent rule and is confident he will be quick enough to qualify for the second event of his return to the sport.

Struggling Spanish team HRT had a horror opening weekend of its second sea...

Posted on Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Spanish FIA chief slams Hispania team

Mar.29 (GMM) The head of the Spanish motor racing federation has slammed Hispania after its drivers failed to qualify for the 2011 season opener.

In the untested F111, Tonio Liuzzi and Narain Karthikeyan kicked off the Spanish team's second season in...

Posted on Monday, March 28, 2011

107pc rule to keep slow cars 'out' in 2011 - Whiting

Mar.28 (GMM) Hispania will be excluded from more grands prix in 2011 if the struggling Spanish team does not up its pace.

That is the suggestion of FIA race director Charlie Whiting, after the untested F111 car did not get within 107 per cent of the ...

Posted on Sunday, March 27, 2011

Walk in the Park - Australian Grand Prix report

It was a different car on a different track but Sebastian Vettel picked up where he left off with a dominant victory in the Australian Grand Prix, his third win on the bounce but more crucially, he takes a very early advantage in the title race. Having usually started a season poorly – he took 12 points from the first two events in 2010 and failed to score in the first two in 2009 – Vettel set himself the target of starting the season on […]

Posted on Sunday, March 27, 2011

Relief but 'no joy' after Virgin survived 107pc rule

Mar.27 (GMM) Team boss John Booth admitted to relief on Sunday after his Virgin drivers managed to qualify for the Australian grand prix.

Based on practice pace in Melbourne, it was feared the MVR02 would fall foul of the new 107pc qualifying rule.

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Posted on Sunday, March 27, 2011

F1 'laughing' at struggling HRT - reports

Mar.27 (GMM) The media centre fell into sarcastic applause on Saturday when an HRT completed a flying lap.

Germany's Bild newspaper claims the entire paddock "is laughing at Hispania", whose cobbled-together F111 car failed to qualify in Melbourne an...