{"id":4097,"date":"2010-04-03T07:18:03","date_gmt":"2010-04-03T11:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4097"},"modified":"2010-04-03T07:18:03","modified_gmt":"2010-04-03T11:18:03","slug":"disappointed-willis-considers-quitting-hrt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/disappointed-willis-considers-quitting-hrt\/","title":{"rendered":"Disappointed Willis considers quitting HRT"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Geoff Willis&#8217; time at the struggling new HRT team may be coming to a short-lived end.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The formerly high-profile Williams, McLaren and Honda technical boss, who mysteriously left Red Bull last year, started working with the Campos\/Hispania project only a few months ago.<\/p>\n<p>But he has now given an exclusive interview to Germany&#8217;s motorsport-total.com in which he admits he is &#8220;disappointed&#8221; with the Dallara-built F110 car.<\/p>\n<p>The Briton said part of the reason for the car&#8217;s shortcomings was the stop-start nature of its design programme, amid the team&#8217;s pre-season struggle for survival.<\/p>\n<p>But Willis says the basic &#8220;technology&#8221; of the Cosworth powered car does not &#8220;comply with modern F1 standards&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Another problem is that Dallara is in charge of the F110&#8217;s technical blueprints and data, making substantial changes problematic for Willis.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have to consider whether it&#8217;s interesting for me to stay with a team whose car is going to drive around at the back of the field,&#8221; he admitted.<\/p>\n<p>Willis, 50, said he will make a decision about his future around the time of the forthcoming Chinese GP.<\/p>\n<p>More optimistic is the team&#8217;s rookie Indian driver, Karun Chandhok.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t have signed with Colin (Kolles) and the team if I didn&#8217;t think there was potential to at least fight with the other new teams,&#8221; he said in Malaysia.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geoff Willis&#8217; time at the struggling new HRT team may be coming to a short-lived end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[5262,5261,5340,723,842,742,5367,528,1178,1216,5336,1188,1193],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4097"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4098,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4097\/revisions\/4098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}