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Posted on Thursday, March 17, 2011

McLaren has least reliable car for 2011

Mar.17 (GMM) McLaren was the least reliable team of the 2011 pre-season.

An analysis by Germany's Auto Motor und Sport shows that, excluding HRT who did not run a new car at all during the winter tests, Ferrari's 150 Italia did the most mileage.

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Posted on Thursday, March 17, 2011

Ecclestone to push for less teams in new F1 deal

Mar.17 (GMM) Bernie Ecclestone has continued to argue that ten teams is a better number for formula one.

The F1 chief executive was a staunch critic of the sport's three new stragglers last year, but he has since said Team Lotus is a worthy competito...

Posted on Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Karthikeyan not worried about 2011 qualifying rule

Mar.16 (GMM) Narain Karthikeyan insists he is not overly worried about failing to qualify for grands prix this year.

A year after three new teams entered formula one last season, the sport has re-imposed a 107 per cent qualifying rule for 2011.

It m...

Posted on Tuesday, March 15, 2011

No pre-Melbourne shakedown for new HRT car

Mar.15 (GMM) HRT's new car for 2011 will turn a wheel for the first time next Friday in Melbourne.

After the struggling Spanish team launched the F111 in Barcelona late last week, it could not then be tested due to parts supposedly being held up in c...

Posted on Monday, March 14, 2011

Barrichello impressed by Lotus while Virgin 'slow'

Mar.14 (GMM) Rubens Barrichello has revealed he has been impressed with the step forward taken by Team Lotus for 2011.

Lotus finished its debut season as the best of the three newcomers, but still significantly off the pace of the established teams.
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Posted on Monday, March 14, 2011

Karthikeyan confident of getting up to speed

Mar.14 (GMM) Narain Karthikeyan is confident he can get back up to speed in formula one within a few races of his 2011 return.

The Indian's highly rated teammate Vitantonio Liuzzi was significantly faster in the limited testing he has done with the H...

Posted on Monday, March 14, 2011

HRT will not miss Melbourne opener - owner

Mar.14 (GMM) After the team's new car sat out the entire pre-season test period, owner Jose Ramon Carabante insists there is no risk that HRT will also miss the 2011 season opener in less than two weeks.

"It is certain that we will be in Australia an...

Posted on Saturday, March 12, 2011

McLaren suffer from lack of running

McLaren has completed fewer testing miles with its 2011 car than any other team except HRT, which has failed to run at all. Kms in 2011 Cars Only 1. Scuderia Ferrari, 6985kms 2. Red Bull Racing, 6129kms 3. Sauber, 5914kms 4. Mercedes, 5778kms 5. Toro Rosso, 5352kms 6. Renault, 5031kms 7. Williams, 4985kms 8. Force India, 4127kms 9. Lotus, 4084kms 10. Virgin, 3709kms 11. McLaren, 3603kms 12. HRT, 0km

Posted on Saturday, March 12, 2011

No testing for HRT's 2011 car

HRT will not test its newly-launched 2011 car. The F111 was rolled into the Barcelona pitlane on Friday but not tested due to some missing parts. And the Spanish team said it will also not run on Saturday - the final day of pre-season testing - "due to a customs problem". Hispania announced that the car's "dampers were not released by customs". "The result of this is that we can't run tomorrow. This is life and we will overcome this problem," said team boss Colin […]

Posted on Friday, March 11, 2011

Q and A: Kolles on the HRT F111

Last winter Colin Kolles was parachuted into what was then the Campos team to try and create a functioning grand prix squad out of the troubled start-up project in little more than a month.In 2011 Hispania is again the last team to launch its new car, ...

Posted on Friday, March 11, 2011

Q and A: Karthikeyan on 2011 hopes

Narain Karthikeyan faces the tough task of getting back up to speed in Formula 1 after a long absence this year while driving for a team that did not have a great 2010 season in HRT.But the Indian is optimistic that both he and his team can prove a poi...

Posted on Friday, March 11, 2011

Karthikeyan sure he will quickly settle

Narain Karthikeyan is optimistic that it will only take him a few races to get back up to full speed after five years away from the Formula 1 grid.The Indian has made a surprise F1 comeback with Hispania this year. He last raced in the world championsh...