HRT “have got problems” and will struggle to make it through the 2010 season.<\/p>\n
That is the admission of F1 chief executive Bernie Ecclestone, who told the Daily Telegraph he is working to help the new Spanish team.<\/p>\n
“HRT have got problems.\u00a0 I will sort it out.\u00a0 I’d like to see 12 teams finish the season because they have made the commitment to come in.<\/p>\n
“We might lose one of them.\u00a0 But I’m doing my bit to make sure it doesn’t happen,” said the 79-year-old Briton.<\/p>\n
In the same interview, Ecclestone also spoke about Michael Schumacher, Lewis Hamilton, Jean Todt, Max Mosley and Flavio Briatore.<\/p>\n
On Schumacher, despite his teammate Nico Rosberg outpacing him in practice on Thursday, Bernie said the seven time world champion looks in “good shape”.<\/p>\n
“People were too quick to write him off.\u00a0 Why pick on him?\u00a0 His return has been brilliant for formula one.”<\/p>\n
On the other hand, Ecclestone thinks 2008 world champion Lewis Hamilton has been “disappointing” so far in 2010.<\/p>\n
“People praise his overtaking but you don’t get any points for passing cars,” he said.<\/p>\n
Flavio Briatore is watching from the vantage-point of his luxury yacht in Monaco, and after a party on Thursday night Ecclestone admitted he regrets the Italian’s paddock ban.<\/p>\n
“He is good company and he was good for this sport.\u00a0 People associated him with F1.\u00a0 He was a character.\u00a0 We miss Max, too.\u00a0 Max got a lot more right than wrong.”<\/p>\n
On the other hand, Ecclestone sounded happy with the quieter role being played by Mosley’s successor Jean Todt.<\/p>\n
“We don’t need the president getting involved in stuff that doesn’t concern him,” he said.<\/p>\n
“The biggest problem that Max had was that he couldn’t package things in a nice way.\u00a0 You tell people to take it or leave it and it doesn’t work.\u00a0 It’s quieter now at the FIA, which is how we like it.”<\/p>\n
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