HRT 2011 car to be ready by Bahrain Test

Many will remember that Hispania Racing had a troublesome start to the 2010 Formula 1 season. There were doubts as to whether the team will make it to the grid at Bahrain due to financial troubles of the team. Another new team in US F1 had already defaulted.

HRT did enter F1 at Bahrain (earlier the team was called Campos F1) after a management reshuffle and with the help of additional funding. The team started with a chassis built by Dallara. But as the season went on HRT were unhappy with their partnership with Dallara citing a poor chassis and lack of updates from them.

This year HRT will be building the car on their own. The car is designed and built under Geoff Willis as technical director and Paul White as the chief designer. Team principal Colin Kolles expects the car to be ready by the final test at Bahrain. This will mean that they will be using the older spec car at the european tests. But hopefully this time they do get to test the car before the first race at Bahrain.