Former boss Colin Kolles and his Greding-based company is no longer involved, but there remains a strong German input with the struggling team HRT.<\/p>\n
A report in the Augsburger Allgemeine newspaper reveals that the new Cosworth-powered F112 car, which failed to qualify in Melbourne last weekend, was designed and built in Augsburg, a city in the south-west of Bavaria.<\/p>\n
It is there that, since November 2011, the Holzer-Gruppe company has been frantically building up the Cosworth-powered cars for Pedro de la Rosa and Narain Karthikeyan.<\/p>\n
“Under our management almost everything has been made here in Bobingen,” said Gunther Holzer.<\/p>\n
“For the wind tunnel we used the Mercedes facility in Brackley (UK),” he added.<\/p>\n
Eight of F1’s 12 teams are based in England, with the others either in Italy (Ferrari and Toro Rosso) or Switzerland (Sauber).<\/p>\n
HRT uses Williams’ gearbox.<\/p>\n
“We wanted to go our separate way, not like almost everyone else who are all within a few miles of Oxford,” said HRT chief executive Saul Ruiz de Marcos.<\/p>\n
The team’s longer plan is to be solely based in Madrid, but for now Holzer will lead the development of the F112.<\/p>\n
“For the start of the European season in Spain we are planning the first improvements to the car,” said Marcos.<\/p>\n
Holzer explained: “The car is designed first for safety and so is heavy compared to the competition.\u00a0 For the future we are focused on making it lighter.”<\/p>\n
Before the lighter car debuts in Barcelona, HRT faces three more challenges – Malaysia, China and Bahrain – at which the sport’s 107 per cent rule will be a major hurdle.<\/p>\n
“The goal is to qualify, there is no other,” admitted de la Rosa.\u00a0 “Race reliability is something else we need to work on, but first we have to qualify.”<\/p>\n
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