Karun Chandhok will have to admit to being “amazed” after sitting out the morning practice session in Barcelona.<\/p>\n
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To both his and teammate Bruno Senna’s chagrin in Spain, the Indian rookie’s HRT car was occupied instead by new test and reserve driver Christian Klien.<\/p>\n
Austrian Klien’s 26 laps were the first at a grand prix weekend since he practiced in a Honda in 2007, but he has been brought in by team boss Colin Kolles for his experience of 48 grands prix and three subsequent years of testing.<\/p>\n
Before the morning session, Chandhok was quoted as saying by the BBC: “I’ll be amazed if he goes half a second quicker than Bruno; I highly doubt it.”<\/p>\n
However, Klien was in fact exactly half a second quicker than Brazilian rookie Senna, cutting the deficit to F1’s other new teams to just five tenths.<\/p>\n
Chandhok said: “Christian has got good experience of some good teams so he could bring something.<\/p>\n
“The team is a little bit behind the game, so any information we can get from other people is useful.\u00a0 It’s frustrating for me, I want to drive the car as much as possible.”<\/p>\n
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