Five cars from the now defunct F1 team HRT have been bought by a Spanish company specialised in used racing parts. ...
11:27 AM, Feb 17, 2013
What one hears is that a lot of teams are facing a challenging financial situation, some more and some less, says Sauber team principal. ...
10:04 PM, Feb 08, 2013
The 31-year-old will be the designated driver for trials at Jerez from Feb 5-7 before Alonso returns from his off-season break. ...
01:20 PM, Jan 25, 2013
Bangkok: India's only two Formula One drivers, Narain Karthikeyan and Karun Chandhok won the 2012 Race of Champions Asia and qualified for the Nations Cup where they will be in the same group as defending champions Germany comprising of Sebastian Vettel and Michael Schumacher. Team India defeated Japan 2-0 in the final after leading the group stage with four wins out of six races. Both the Indian drivers won three...
11:03 PM, Dec 14, 2012
London: The departure of Spanish strugglers HRT from Formula One still leaves the sport with one team too many, commercial supremo Bernie Ecclestone said on Thursday. Madrid-based HRT have not been included on the official 2013 entry list published by the governing International Automobile Federation, a move that leaves 11 teams and 22 cars on the starting grid. "I'd rather have 10," Ecclestone told Reuters. "I never wanted 12. "It's...
07:04 PM, Dec 13, 2012
London: Formula One looks likely to be reduced to 11 teams next season after the official 2013 championship entry list was published without struggling Spanish-based HRT on it. The 22-car list was published on the governing International Automobile Federation's (FIA) website on Saturday after the expiry of a Friday deadline for teams to pay their entry fees. Under the 2013 sporting regulations, Madrid-based HRT were required to pay entry fees...
11:07 AM, Dec 02, 2012
Sao Paulo: Formula One tail-enders HRT face an uncertain future after Sunday's season-ending Brazilian Grand Prix with employees in the dark about plans to sell the team, according to veteran Spanish driver Pedro de la Rosa. "It's not easy for anyone, especially mechanics and engineers and people who from now on have to fight for their future. None of us know what will happen," he told reporters in the Interlagos...
10:09 AM, Nov 23, 2012
Austin: Pedro De la Rosa denied reports on Thursday that his cash-strapped Formula One team HRT was putting him in danger by sending the Spanish driver out in an unsafe car for this weekend's US Grand Prix. The Spanish-based Formula One backmarkers are up for sale and talks are ongoing with a number of groups interested in buying the team, owners Thesan Capital said earlier this week. With HRT's future...
09:23 AM, Nov 16, 2012
Madrid: HRT Formula One team is up for sale, its owners Thesan Capital has announced 16 months after buying a majority stake in the Spanish outfit from Jose Ramon Carabante. HRT are yet to score a point since joining F1 in 2010. The owners are hoping to find new investors in the coming weeks. "The current owners of HRT want to confirm they are holding talks with several groups interested...
05:51 PM, Nov 13, 2012
London: Spanish-based Formula One backmarkers HRT are up for sale and talks are ongoing with a number of groups interested in buying the team, owners Thesan Capital said in a statement on Monday. The team, who have yet to score a point in three years, have Indian Narain Karthikeyan and Spanish veteran Pedro De la Rosa as their two current drivers in a season that ends later this month. HRT...
11:29 PM, Nov 12, 2012
Greater Noida: Narain Karthikeyan, India's only Formula One driver, on Sunday said that finishing the race was the maximum result he could have got in his home Grand Prix as he had to slow down his car due to overheating of the brakes. Right from the start, Karthikeyan was warned on the Team Radio to "cool off, cool off". His team-mate Pedro de la Rosa had to retire after the...
08:41 PM, Oct 28, 2012
Greater Noida: India's Formula One driver Narain Karthikeyan said Saturday he was happy to start from the penultimate spot ahead of at least one of the Marussias in his home Grand Prix at the Buddh International Circuit. Karthikeyan will be starting at the 23rd place behind HRT team mate Pedro de la Rosa and ahead of Marussia-Cosworth's Charles Pic in Sunday's race. "Overall I'm happy with the performance we showed...
08:51 PM, Oct 27, 2012
Greater Noida: India's only F1 racer at the moment, Narain Karthikeyan is hopeful of retaining his seat in HRT for the 2013 season with some strong showings in the upcoming Asian races. "Next part of the season are the Asian races - Singapore, Korea, Japan and the Indian GP. The next leg of Asian races suit me and I intend to put up a good show," Karthikeyan said here on...
10:17 PM, Sep 17, 2012
Palampur: The toll in the bus accident near Malli on the Palampur-Ashapuri road near Palampur rose to 34 on Tuesday with authorities recovering 20 more bodies, police said. Five others, including two women and a child, were seriously injured in the mishap which took place when a Himachal Road Transport Corporation (HRTC) bus rolled 1000 ft down into a deep gorge on Monday evening. Till late Monday night 14 bodies...
01:29 PM, Sep 11, 2012
Monza (Italy): Ma Qing Hua will become the first Chinese to drive in the Formula One Championship on Friday when he replaces Narain Karthikeyan in the HRT for the first free practice session at the Italian Grand Prix here. Since joining HRT, Ma Qing Hua has been preparing himself for the F1 challenge by testing lower category cars, working on the simulator and going through a rigorous physical training regime....
03:47 PM, Sep 05, 2012
With the London Olympics hogging the limelight all over the world, the Formula One fraternity has decided to take a month-long break with the next race - the Belgian Gran Prix - to take place on September 2. An agreement was reached between the 12 teams to send their staff for vacation. Once the Hungarian Grand Prix got over, McLaren initiated the shut down. Red Bull too closed its door...
12:57 PM, Aug 07, 2012
Silverstone: Ma Qing Hua has become the first Chinese-born driver to test in Formula One, completing 82 laps of the British Grand Prix circuit at Silverstone for HRT. The 24-year-old Ma was on the track on Thursday on the first of two days of a young-driver test on the site of Mark Webber's F1 win on Sunday. "It was a fantastic feeling to drive a Formula One car for the...
02:58 PM, Jul 13, 2012
Silverstone: HRT reserve driver Dani Clos will take the wheels from India's Narain Karthikeyan for the opening practise session of the Formula One British Grand Prix here next weekend. Spanish driver Clos will step into the F112 for the second time in the season after the Barcelona round last month. He will accompany Pedro de la Rosa for the first 90 minutes of practice at the iconic circuit with Karthikeyan...
08:33 PM, Jun 29, 2012
Bahrain: Lewis Hamilton edged Sebastian Vettel in the first practice at the Bahrain Grand Prix on Friday. Hamilton clocked 1 minute, 33.572 seconds in his McLaren around the 5.4-km Bahrain International Circuit, 0.305 seconds quicker than the two-time defending champion Vettel of Red Bull. HRT's Pedro de la Rosa was a surprising third followed by last week's Chinese GP winner Nico Rosberg of Mercedes. Hamilton's team-mate Jenson Button was fifth....
02:30 PM, Apr 20, 2012
Mumbai: Indian driver Narain Karthikeyan completed the first laps aboard the new HRT F112 at the Barcelona circuit ahead of its Formula One (F1) debut in Australia in less than two weeks. Having passed all the mandatory crash tests last weekend, the Spanish squad was racing against time to put the car on track by taking advantage of 'filming day' regulations to shake down the new car. Filming day regulations...
05:48 PM, Mar 06, 2012
