HRT: Christian Klien believes in his chances

During the last tests in Barcelona, ​​HRT ran the Italian Vitantonio Liuzzi and the Swiss Giorgio Mondini in the F110, namely the car used last year. A car that Christian Klien knows well having taken the wheel of it three times in a race in 2010. The Austrian also states on his website that he is still in the running for the second seat this season.

“My manager Roman Rummenigge is in constant contact with the team management, he admits. Needless to say, I would love to ride for HRT. I am convinced that the team will make big progress and will surprise a lot of people. With Geoff Willis and Paul White, the head of design, they have engineers who know how to design competitive racing cars. »

Klien remains confident. For him, it is not because Liuzzi and Mondini both took part in the Barcelona tests that they have an advantage over him for the second seat alongside Narain Karthikeyan.

“All testing was carried out with the 2010 car, which I drove over five race weekends in 2010, He continues. With the racing engineers we worked a lot on the settings, and were able to somewhat close the gap with the other teams although the car has not evolved all year. Other drivers like Giorgio or Tonio have no experience with this car. From the team?s point of view, it is (the fact of running them, editor's note) the way to get as much feedback as possible and to test the work of other drivers. »

21 days before the opening round of the world championship Formula 1 2011, March 27 in Melbourne, uncertainty still reigns around the identity of the driver who will sit in the cockpit of the second F111 this season.

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