HRT on Friday became the last formula one team to reveal its 2011 car.<\/p>\n
But the F111, designed in-house by the Spanish team after the collapse of a technical deal with Toyota, may not actually run at the Circuit de Catalunya on Friday due to delayed spare parts.<\/p>\n
That would mean Hispania, featuring drivers Tonio Liuzzi and Narain Karthikeyan this season, will have just one full day of testing before the season opener in Australia in two weeks.<\/p>\n
The car, shown to the world’s media in the Barcelona pitlane, does look different to the sluggish 2010 contender, and features an all-new white and red livery.<\/p>\n
On track, Michael Schumacher was impressing at the wheel of Mercedes’ fully-updated Mercedes car, beating Sergio Perez’s Thursday best time despite using only the soft Pirellis — not the super-softs used by Sauber’ Mexican rookie.<\/p>\n
“We’ve definitely moved forward,” team boss Ross Brawn told the BBC.\u00a0 “Whether it’s enough we won’t know until Melbourne.”<\/p>\n
Elsewhere in the F1 world, McLaren’s executive chairman Ron Dennis was banned from driving on the roads for six months following four recent traffic offences in the UK.<\/p>\n
The Surrey Advertiser newspaper said the 63-year-old’s latest offence involved running a red light.<\/p>\n
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