There may be some hope for struggling Hispania Racing as news have recently surfaced that they may be sourcing technical support from Toyota’s Cologne-based operations. This comes after the announcement that the F1 team will not be using the current Dallara-designed Hispania F110 chassis for the 2011 series. Dallara is an Italian chassis company that also supplies chassis to IndyCar.
Questions about the Hispania team’s technical knowledge in the engineering department have also been called into question with the only experienced member of the team being Geoff Willis who is their Technical Director.
Toyota’s F1 team have “restructured to provide specialist solutions ranging from complete car development to individual component testing or production, aimed at the automotive or engineering sectors and beyond.”
Toyota’s F1 team being a ‘consultant’ to Hispania would probably include the never used before TF110 chassis which was previously promised to Stefan GP, but the memorandum of understanding with Stefan GP have lapsed and an extension looks highly unlikely.
A source close to the team says that negotiations between HRT and Toyota will end positively as questions about the F1 team’s financial uncertainty have been addressed.
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Interesting though it too late to derive much benefit from the stillborn TF110 chassis. At this point of time teams are all looking at their 2011 car
Well, it may be a stretch of the imagination, but not impossible that they might ditch the Dallara chassis for the TF110 before season’s end. And besides that, I don’t believe there’s anything (no anticipated major changes in the technical regulations) to stop them from using the TF110 next season. I don’t think that they’re capable of designing anything of their own that would be superior to Toyota’s 2010 design, even if it is a year out of date; it would still be a big step forward for them.
It’s not that simple. The car is just one part of the whole equation. There needs to be a development programme supporting the car. In fact the car is just the visible result of the real effort, the programme itself.
No assurances that throwing in the TF110 for the remainder of the season will yield positive results. Car has not turned a wheel and thus no data and real understanding of the car.
For next season we’re looking at return of KERS, no double deck diffusers, new tyres. Still quite a bit of work. In fact the TF110 key strength is said to be the rear packaging incl diffusers etc. All need to be reworked for 2011. With no track data, its as good as starting from scratch and you have the freedom on design concept rather than trying to evolve an old philosophy.
What HRT could do is to try and borrow some of the tricks from the TF110 and try to introduce in their car but piece meal solutions is never as good as a comprehensive package solution. Thats why RedBull continues to be ahead. Teams are trying to copy their bits but are still behind.
I’ve read a detailed story on the TF110 in Racecar Engineering and it did incorporate quite a few clever bits and pieces especially the rear. However those ideas were implemented well before the start of season. Teams have progressed their development quite a bit since then so the car may seem impressive then but not necessarily so now.
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It’s due to something called aerodynamics which varies greatly between a front team like McLaren and a back end team like HRT