Hispania Racing: Don’t Be Too Harsh; Remember the Life Team

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Published: November 14, 2010

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There has been a lot of criticism this year of the three new teams in Formula 1. Hispania Racing in particular have been the victims of some fairly severe abuse from the media along with the other two new teams, Lotus and Virgin Racing. Some people have said they don't deserve to be in Formula 1—that they add nothing to the sport and their cars are so far off the pace they are dangerously slow.

Now, personally I feel that the new teams have had a learning year and that the 2011 season will see if the teams are worthy of a place in Formula 1. If the cars are still as far off the pace of the established teams as they are now then I have to question their value to Formula 1. They can still be at the back but the gap needs to close.

Currently the quickest of the new teams is around 1.5 seconds off the pace of the next cars, which are normally one of the Toro Rossos, Saubers or maybe one of the Force Indias. That gap has to close.

Some people have even said that Hispania are the worst team ever to grace Formula 1 and that the other new teams are not much better. Now these people need to look back 20 years or so to see the ultimate F1 ineptitude.

In the late '80s and early '90s we saw some of the most appalling Formula 1 teams ever seen. I will focus on one team in particular in this piece to show that the new teams are not the worst but there were many teams in this era that were much worse than the 2010 newcomers.

Now in the late '80s to early '90s so many teams tried to enter that qualifying and pre-qualifying were needed.  

The teams that I am referring to have statistics like this:

Coloni: 81 Grand Prixs entered, 67 DNQ/DNPQ

Eurobrun: 76 Grand Prixs entered, 55 DNQ/DNPQ

Pacific 66 Grand Prixs entered, 25 DNQ/DNPQ

Andrea Moda: 16 Grand Prixs entered, 15 DNQ/DNPQ 

 

Coloni, Eurobrun and ...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Formula 1

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