Hispania Racing Team Official Sponsors Thread

RtN · PostPosted: Mon Nov 15, 2010 8:38 pm

phil1993 wrote:

Reckon they'll survive into 2011?

To quote Stephen Fry;

'Short answer, no. Long answer; fuck, no.'

Unless Willis has been working his bollocks off for the last 5 months they have nothing aside from a contract with Williams. No car, no money, no drivers. Carabante is a fraud and Kolles isn't a miracle worker. If they do drag something legal to Bahrain it will be a Lola-sized fuckup.

James B · PostPosted: Mon Nov 15, 2010 8:48 pm

ellis wrote:

bigears wrote:

No money, no go?

That's a shame. Are they still going ahead with their own car as they have broken off links with Dallara or they got no car at all?

I don't believe they have the facilities to even start producing there own car. Now Toyota and Dallara won't work them.

Well the way they could do it, which is what Saward suggested, is that they could piece it together - Willis and co design a car, get various independent firms to build it and loan Williams' windtunnel

However, it would almost certainly be Super Aguri 2006 bad, if not worse

Fish88 · PostPosted: Mon Nov 15, 2010 8:52 pm

Well they should come up with something fast. Because the 107% rule next year isn't going to help them.

bigears · PostPosted: Mon Nov 15, 2010 9:08 pm

James B wrote:

However, it would almost certainly be Super Aguri 2006 bad, if not worse

Super Aguri is different, they had money from Honda to start with but it wasn't a lot.

Can you imagine a HRT car battling with a McLaren? Not a chance but Sato certainly did that at Montreal.

phil1993 · PostPosted: Mon Nov 15, 2010 9:18 pm

Quote:

Geoff Willis, Hispania technical director for the season, says "No comment until explanations from Dr Kolles and the Carabantes."

James B · PostPosted: Mon Nov 15, 2010 9:39 pm

bigears wrote:

James B wrote:

However, it would almost certainly be Super Aguri 2006 bad, if not worse

Super Aguri is different, they had money from Honda to start with but it wasn't a lot.

Can you imagine a HRT car battling with a McLaren? Not a chance but Sato certainly did that at Montreal.

But that wasn't in 2006. 2006 was when they used the 2002 Arrows and were absolutely miles off the pace

Gaara · PostPosted: Mon Nov 15, 2010 9:42 pm

There's still Epsilon Euskadi, they were allegedly building a 2011 car.

Fish88 · PostPosted: Mon Nov 15, 2010 10:07 pm

Gaara wrote:

There's still Epsilon Euskadi, they were allegedly building a 2011 car.

Yeah Epsilon got the facilities and people to develop a car. HRT already got the personal with 1 year (and more) experience to keep it operational. Both had people who where willing to back them up financially, and both have Spanish origins so those would be easy to combine. Together that surely would make a reasonable F1 team?

hedgey666 · PostPosted: Fri Jan 07, 2011 8:05 am

Mentioned elsewhere but Narain's back. Yay?

Any word on HRT sourcing a new car? If they try running last year's they probably wont qualify for a single race.

Gabriel · PostPosted: Fri Jan 07, 2011 9:13 pm

They will have a new car, apparently based on some Toyota designs.

kals · PostPosted: Fri Jan 07, 2011 9:16 pm

I thought the Toyota connection was officially ended some time back and they were planning on just using the 2010 Dallara.

Fermani2 · PostPosted: Sun Jan 09, 2011 10:59 pm

kals wrote:

I thought the Toyota connection was officially ended some time back and they were planning on just using the 2010 Dallara.

Money opens up everything!

Anyway, F1today.nl reports HRT has left the FOTA http://www.f1today.nl/20110109/hrtwoord ... laten.html

hedgey666 · PostPosted: Mon Jan 10, 2011 3:04 pm

Can't help but notice the pattern - seems they got dumped out for not paying the membership fee...

ellis · PostPosted: Mon Jan 10, 2011 4:25 pm

hedgey666 wrote:

Can't help but notice the pattern - seems they got dumped out for not paying the membership fee...

Indeed. Yet another.

Shaddix · PostPosted: Mon Jan 10, 2011 9:00 pm

being a member of the fota costs a team € 100.000/year
so it's not surprising they left

phil1993 · PostPosted: Mon Jan 10, 2011 9:13 pm

that means FOTA rake in 1.2M Euros a year. What the hell do they do with the money?

Oh, and I want HRT to do well this year, just to shut up 90% of f1 fans on t'internet

phil1993 · PostPosted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 8:50 pm

Tabatha Valls (Press woman) has joined Virgin from HRT. Not hugely relevant but someone might care.

noikeee · PostPosted: Sat Jan 15, 2011 5:57 pm

Fish88 wrote:

Gaara wrote:

There's still Epsilon Euskadi, they were allegedly building a 2011 car.

Yeah Epsilon got the facilities and people to develop a car. HRT already got the personal with 1 year (and more) experience to keep it operational. Both had people who where willing to back them up financially, and both have Spanish origins so those would be easy to combine. Together that surely would make a reasonable F1 team?

It couldn't quite work because HRT was initially set up to promote Murcia, and Epsilon's whole point is being a basque team. It's a bit like asking the Scottish national team to join the English national team.

micha · PostPosted: Mon Jan 17, 2011 11:27 am

noikeee wrote:

Fish88 wrote:

Gaara wrote:

There's still Epsilon Euskadi, they were allegedly building a 2011 car.

Yeah Epsilon got the facilities and people to develop a car. HRT already got the personal with 1 year (and more) experience to keep it operational. Both had people who where willing to back them up financially, and both have Spanish origins so those would be easy to combine. Together that surely would make a reasonable F1 team?

It couldn't quite work because HRT was initially set up to promote Murcia, and Epsilon's whole point is being a basque team. It's a bit like asking the Scottish national team to join the English national team.

So doing a Alain Prost would be wiser??
being too stubborn and let the company go down instead of saving the jobs of 100+ people.

Flying High · PostPosted: Mon Jan 17, 2011 5:40 pm

Toyota TF-110
http://hunnylander.wordpress.com/2011/0 ... -prix-car/

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