En Australia:

La Parcela donde se va a construir la base:

Buenas fotos Logan. Gracias.

Sepang parece que se les ha atragantado, o no han trabajado lo suficiente el setup. Muy lejos de Virgin.

Eso parece de momento.Y mira que decían hoy en la Sexta que habían traido piezas nuevas

una duda que tengo, chandok no lo he visto aún con gorra,?¿?, es porque no tiene patrocinador, no entiendo

Es que le queda mejor un sombrero de paja junto con un palillo, al mas puro estilo Jose Mota

¿El sobrino o el tío? El parecido con el casco puesto, pone los pelos de punta

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/82611

Hispania thrilled with perfect reliability

By Matt Beer Friday, April 2nd 2010, 09:13 GMT


Hispania was celebrating after Sepang practice, having managed a totally trouble-free day for the first time in its short history.

The squad's race to make it into the field for the first race following its last minute restructuring meant it managed little mileage in Bahrain, and the teething troubles continued in Australia - although Karun Chandhok at least finished the race.

However in Malaysia today both Chandhok and Bruno Senna had no mechanical problems at all in the two practice sessions, and completed 110 laps between them.

"Both sessions were productive and ran as smooth as possible for both Karun and Bruno who could cover all the planned testing programme while driving most laps ever in their practice history," said team boss Colin Kolles.

"Technically everything worked well and this is very positive for the team to be running through a normal driving programme with a crew that worked very hard to make all of this happen.

"Now we need to go beyond and improve driveability of the car."

Senna was equally delighted with the amount of running HRT had managed.

"We were ready straight away when the first session started and that was a good feeling," he said.

"We managed all programmes, we had no mechanical problems. It is good to have the first 100 per cent reliable day and I'm happy about that."

Willis unimpressed by HRT's car design

By Dieter Rencken and Pablo Elizalde Friday, April 2nd 2010, 15:55 GMT

Geoff WillisHispania Racing's technical consultant Geoff Willis says he has been unimpressed with the design of the Spanish squad's first Formula 1 car.

The Cosworth-powered machine was designed for the Campos operation by Italian race car manufacturer Dallara, who was believed to have halted the project more than once due to financial problems from the Spanish outfit.

Campos become Hispania after it was saved by a last-minute deal, showing up at the season-opening race in Bahrain without having run its car.

Willis, a former Red Bull technical director, has been working as a consultant to the team since before the first race of the year.

And while the Briton admits circumstances were not easy for Dallara, he says the car is simply disappointing and not up to the current F1 standard.

"Frankly I'm disappointed. I was expecting better," Willis told AUTOSPORT about the HRT car.

"There a lot of reasons why this design has been compromised, not least because the programme was stop and started, stop and started. So there's quite a lot of corners that were cut in the last few weeks to get to Bahrain.

"But fundamentally I'm disappointed at the level of engineering in the car and I don't think it reflects current F1 practise by quite some margin.

"Now you put that down to time, some of it down to experience, some of it down to finance, but I think overall, even allowing for those things, I'm disappointed with what I see."

He added: "I'm less worried about the overall performance, because the aero programme was stopped quite some while ago, and it was a relatively small aero programme. But it's probably the same level of aero programme to the Lotus and the car is clearly not as quick as the Lotus.

"And I'm thinking just of the built quality, the design quality, the refinement of the design. I think it's missing a lot of tricks that would be taken for granted by anybody in the pitlane now."

Willis admitted he is yet to decide if he is going to continue working with the team, with a decision to be based on what the Spanish squad's plans for the future are.

"I'm not particularly interested in staying with a car that's at the back of the grid," Willis said. "I'm interested in making cars go faster and manage the whole thing.

"I don't mind whether you are trying to win the championship from the front of the grid or if you are trying to get better from the back of the grid, but I'm just keen to make sure we've got a programme with enough funding to make it an interesting challenge, and that's something that we need to sort out."

He also conceded it was vital for the team to begin a development programme as soon as possible, even if he is unsure who would be in charge of doing that.

"That's going to depend on how the contract with Dallara comes to its final conclusion, because of course at the moment they have all the design information and in order to develop the car either they will need to do it under our instruction or we will need to do it and for that we'll need the car data and the aerodynamic data, and all the things like that," he added.

"That will have to be resolved. One of the options is starting from scratch. You can reverse engineer to the car you have in the garage, but that's very painful, it's quite a few weeks' work and then you have a few weeks to set your wind tunnel and your safety programme and then a few weeks to understand what you've got.

"At that rate you are not going to have anything for quite a few months and that's too late for what this team needs. So we need a shortcut way of putting performance on the car. And right now we've looked at our options and we need to make a decision, probably next week."

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/82630

Willis unimpressed by HRT's car design

By Dieter Rencken and Pablo Elizalde Friday, April 2nd 2010, 15:55 GMT


Hispania Racing's technical consultant Geoff Willis says he has been unimpressed with the design of the Spanish squad's first Formula 1 car.

The Cosworth-powered machine was designed for the Campos operation by Italian race car manufacturer Dallara, who was believed to have halted the project more than once due to financial problems from the Spanish outfit.

Campos become Hispania after it was saved by a last-minute deal, showing up at the season-opening race in Bahrain without having run its car.

Willis, a former Red Bull technical director, has been working as a consultant to the team since before the first race of the year.

And while the Briton admits circumstances were not easy for Dallara, he says the car is simply disappointing and not up to the current F1 standard.

"Frankly I'm disappointed. I was expecting better," Willis told AUTOSPORT about the HRT car.

"There a lot of reasons why this design has been compromised, not least because the programme was stop and started, stop and started. So there's quite a lot of corners that were cut in the last few weeks to get to Bahrain.

"But fundamentally I'm disappointed at the level of engineering in the car and I don't think it reflects current F1 practise by quite some margin.

"Now you put that down to time, some of it down to experience, some of it down to finance, but I think overall, even allowing for those things, I'm disappointed with what I see."

He added: "I'm less worried about the overall performance, because the aero programme was stopped quite some while ago, and it was a relatively small aero programme. But it's probably the same level of aero programme to the Lotus and the car is clearly not as quick as the Lotus.

"And I'm thinking just of the built quality, the design quality, the refinement of the design. I think it's missing a lot of tricks that would be taken for granted by anybody in the pitlane now."

Willis admitted he is yet to decide if he is going to continue working with the team, with a decision to be based on what the Spanish squad's plans for the future are.

"I'm not particularly interested in staying with a car that's at the back of the grid," Willis said. "I'm interested in making cars go faster and manage the whole thing.

"I don't mind whether you are trying to win the championship from the front of the grid or if you are trying to get better from the back of the grid, but I'm just keen to make sure we've got a programme with enough funding to make it an interesting challenge, and that's something that we need to sort out."

He also conceded it was vital for the team to begin a development programme as soon as possible, even if he is unsure who would be in charge of doing that.

"That's going to depend on how the contract with Dallara comes to its final conclusion, because of course at the moment they have all the design information and in order to develop the car either they will need to do it under our instruction or we will need to do it and for that we'll need the car data and the aerodynamic data, and all the things like that," he added.

"That will have to be resolved. One of the options is starting from scratch. You can reverse engineer to the car you have in the garage, but that's very painful, it's quite a few weeks' work and then you have a few weeks to set your wind tunnel and your safety programme and then a few weeks to understand what you've got.

"At that rate you are not going to have anything for quite a few months and that's too late for what this team needs. So we need a shortcut way of putting performance on the car. And right now we've looked at our options and we need to make a decision, probably next week."

Que necesidad tienen los fichajes experimentados en lavarse las manos para que la aventura no les manche su imagen inmaculada.

A veces pienso que en vez de gente experimentada lo que este equipo necesita es gente involucrada.Si Willis no está contratado finalmente y sólo actua como consultor, me parece que en los tiempos que corren arriesgar la información que se tenga para que al dia siguiente pueda se consultor de Virgin, en fin.Además, el compromiso de esta manera es 0, con lo que te puedes encontrar con unas declaraciones como estas y ni siquiera poder llamarle al orden.

Macho, no sé lo que te esperabas encontrar, pero desde luego no creo que fueran los diseños de Ferrari, Red Bull o McLaren, porque entonces es que te has equivocado de cabo a rabo.Hay que compararlo con Virgin y Lotus.No más.

Desde luego que sería deseable que lo evolucionaran y que se convirtiera en un equipo de media tabla, pero eso en el primer año no es realista.Un hombre con su experiencia no creo que pueda esperar eso.Si lo que dice es que espera un programa de evoluciones, e parece algo raro que antes de contratarke como consultor no le hayan dicho si se va a evolucionar el diseño o no.Si le han dicho que no, y ha aceptado, a callarse tocan...si le han dicho que sí...a callarse también.

Joder con el Kolles y con el Willis...¡que Poncio Pilatos que son!

La ropa se lava en casa, no se tira uno piedras sobre su propio tejado.

Si este es el nivel feroz de autocrítica que hay en la F1, prefiero que nuestro Peter Sauber esté calladito...

Afortunadamente, parece que hay muy buen ambiente en el equipo...

Muy poco elegantes las declaraciones de Willis.
BAR tuvo presupuestos astronómicos y poco partido le sacaron, siendo él su director técnico.

EDITO: No he visto que ya estaba comentado en la página anterior. Disculpas.

No es por defenderle, pero bajo su mando BAR llegó a ser el segundo mejor equipo del Campeonato por detrás de Ferrari. En el momento en el que se deshicieron de él se fueron a pique.

Saludos

Otro que raja de HRT...

Hoy han cumplido de sobra acabando la carrera con los dos coches. Chapó por ellos.

Y Chandhok especialmente. Creo que por lo menos est'an consiguiendo fiabilidad, y hoy rodando en tiempos muy cercanos a Virgin y Lotus