MARCH 15, 2012

HRT requests to postpone scrutineering until Friday

The HRT team is running late in its preparation for this weekend's Australian Grand Prix, and have asked the FIA to delay scrutinnering until Friday morning.

The HRT team is running late in its preparation for this weekend's Australian Grand Prix, and have asked the FIA to delay scrutinnering until Friday morning.

After failing two crash tests over the winter, HRT failed to run it's new car in the official winter tests, and only managed to run the first chassis in a shake-down test at Barcelona.

Having arrived in Australia, the team is scrambling to build up their second chassis, and the Spanish team officially requested with the FIA on Thursday to postpone scrutineering on car #22 until Friday morning.

2012 will see the HRT driven by Narain Kathikeyan and Perdro de la Rosa.