HRT’s inexperienced driver lineup is a “disadvantage” for a new formula one outfit, team boss Colin Kolles has admitted.<\/p>\n
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Of the three new teams on the grid in 2010, Hispania is the only one that arrived in Bahrain for its grand prix debut with two rookies.<\/p>\n
Kolles told Finland’s Turun Sanomat: “I am pleased with what (Bruno) Senna and (Karun) Chandhok have done, but it is useless to deny that their lack of F1 experience is a disadvantage at this point.”<\/p>\n
HRT has now signed former Super Aguri and Spyker driver Sakon Yamamoto, who also tested with Renault in 2008, to drive on the Fridays of grand prix weekends.<\/p>\n
But even the 27-year-old Japanese is bringing sponsor funding to his cockpit.<\/p>\n
“We could not afford to hire drivers like Jarno Trulli or Heikki Kovalainen, as Lotus did,” Kolles insists.<\/p>\n
“We have to take drivers who are good but who also come with budgets,” added the Romanian-born German, who said Yamamoto will take HRT forward “because he has more experience than Bruno and Karun”.<\/p>\n
The team has announced that some new parts will be on the F110 car in Barcelona, but Kolles admits that “much work is needed to make our cars faster”.<\/p>\n
The end of the Dallara chassis contract has complicated the development process for the 2010 car, but Kolles said HRT will shortly announce a deal with a wind tunnel so it can develop its own aerodynamic pieces.<\/p>\n
“Our competitors have quite a lead on us but I still believe that in the end Hispania will be the best of the new teams,” he insisted.<\/p>\n
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