Virgin come under pressure from HRT

16 comments on “Virgin come under pressure from HRT”

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   smifaye (@)
   23rd May 2011, 10:26

   It really underlines how good a job Lotus are doing. Even though this result wasn’t great for them, in comparison to Virgin and HRT they are looking a lot more professional.

   It is sad to see Glock driving around at the back of the field
   1. 

      Fixy (@)
      23rd May 2011, 15:05

      It must be awful for each of those drivers, 60 laps so far from everyone else and with no opportunity to battle. How boring.
2. 

   BasCB (@bascb)
   23rd May 2011, 10:34

   So by now Virgin has shown the car has reliability. When will they start doing something about their speed?

   Did they have an EBD with somewhat off throttle boost prepared only to shelve it, like HRT did. Or are they just without a clue what to do for downforce.
3. 

   Icthyes (@icthyes)
   23rd May 2011, 11:11

   Yeh it’s a shame Glock might be remembered best for being overtaken by Hamilton.

   I think Virgin’s strategy is paying off. Reliability is a tough thing to conquer for a new team, despite what this era of seemingly bullet-proof cars implies. They just need a mad (probably wet) race to happen and they’ll get a 13th place. Realistically even if they went for pace they wouldn’t score any points so this is the best thing for them. It’s next year that they should be going for performance.
   1. 

      Douglas62500
      23rd May 2011, 11:53

      I guess that’s the good bit really, with such vastly improved excellent reliability they could focus hard on pace, but sadly it does not appear to pay off at the moment…
   2. 

      dyslexicbunny (@dyslexicbunny)
      23rd May 2011, 12:57

      I like it too because it doesn’t matter how good your car is if you can’t finish.

      But they desperately need to get some better results solely for the purpose of demonstrating that their CFD only approach is valuable. Right now, they aren’t impressing anyone.
   3. 

      Fixy (@)
      23rd May 2011, 15:12

      Glock might be remembered best for being overtaken by Hamilton.

      That’s what I remember him for.
4. 

   James
   23rd May 2011, 11:45

   “Battle Has Been Joined”. Haha, shame on you, Keith :)
   1. 

      Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
      23rd May 2011, 11:52

      Er, why?
      1. 

         FullSpe3d (@dryyoshi)
         23rd May 2011, 19:23

         *Cough* Legard *Cough*
5. 

   bosyber
   23rd May 2011, 12:22

   I see some people saying they have reliability, and maybe braking problems don’t count for that, but it seems to me they didn’t get the most out of the EBD because of reliability problems, like most others in the bottom half of the field that is running with it, or trying.

   Virgin really do not seem to have a solid direction to me. Now they have the high nose, it is time they start thinking up ideas of how to use it to the max for underfloor downforce.
6. 

   Anders
   23rd May 2011, 14:57

   Get Timo into the Renault team as he should have been, They should get rid of Nick Heidfeld or Vitaly Petrov. It´s becoming clear that Virgin is a waste of time.
   1. 

      Solo (@solo)
      23rd May 2011, 18:24

      And Glock is better? As i remember he wasn’t better than Trulli and Trulli now eats the dust of Kovalanien who used to eat the dust of Hamilton.
   2. 

      AndrewTanner (@andrewtanner)
      23rd May 2011, 19:51

      Why get rid of either Renault driver, both are doing a good job.
7. 

   AndrewTanner (@andrewtanner)
   23rd May 2011, 19:50

   A pretty uninspiring team to be honest, they do next to nothing for me.
8. 

   manatcna (@manatcna)
   24th May 2011, 7:13

   Remember this quote? or something close to it.
   “It’s easier to make a fast car reliable, than to make a reliable car fast”

   I forget who said it. I wonder if it’s true.

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