The team of Tony Fernandez, of course, is the best of all that debuted in Formula 1 in 2010. She progresses faster than “Marussia” and HRT, with which she came to the championship. The only problem is the absence of glasses. For two years that the team played in “F1” under the name “Lotus”, “The stable” did not earn a single test score. A reason to count on the fact that the situation will be able to fix, there is – “Caterham” in 2012 received a gearbox and Kers from the championship “Red Bull Racing”. Considering that on the cars of the Fernandez teams there are the same Renault engines, it turns out that the entire power plant “Caterham ST01” is almost identical to the one in one of the best cars in “F 1”. On the other hand, Caterham has less production capabilities than leading groups.
The Spanish team from year to year is surprising only by the fact that it still exists. The team was on the verge of closing several times due to the lack of serious financial partners. Plus, HRT moves to the UK all the time to Germany, then to Spain. The absence of a permanent base is clearly not beneficial. The car for the 2012 season HRT introduced one of the last. To build a completely new car, the team has no means, and therefore the next development is only the evolution of the old car, which was already the slowest in Peloton last year. The technical headquarters left Jeff Willis – the Briton was tired of the confusion inside the team and entered into a contract with Mercedes AMG. HRT is the main contender for the last place in the Cup of Designers of the 2012 season.
The team debuting in the championship under the name “Virgin Racing” now officially changed its name to “Marussia”, taking another step towards Russian. The “stable” has a license from Russia, but employees are still mainly British, and pilots from Germany and France. Over the past two years, “Virgin Racing” regularly closed the protocol of the Cup of Designers, but in fairness it is worth noting that the championship was not the worst team of the championship – the cars were slightly faster than the HRT, but the pilots were almost several times lucky for the last several times lucky close to the top ten. With HRT, the Russified “Marussia” will fight in 2012 – these two teams last shown their cars before the start of the season.