HRT has confirmed that it will shakedown its new F112 in a filming day at Barcelona on Monday.
The team said: “The F112 will see then the light and will cover its first kilometres during this promotional filming session. Narain Karthikeyan will be the driver in the cockpit on this occasion. Pedro de la Rosa and Dani Clos will also be present to see how the new car evolves.”
Given that it has had all winter to get itself organised – and could have done some proper testing on race tyres if it had readied the car even a day earlier – the schedule does not bode well for the team’s prospects.
Adam Cooper F1 
No it doesn’t, and yet its an improvement over the last two years.
Bit harsh Adam! Bodes better than previous years one could argue. Appreciate Karthikeyan needs the mileage, but if I was team manager I’d be putting Pedro in the car with his wealth of McLaren testing experience & race experience. Strange decision.
Looks like HRT are doing better than Marussia who – according to Autosport – still haven’t passed the crash tests.
I think both teams are going to be struggling to get below the 107% qualifying time in Melbourne. They’ll need all the track time they can get in Melbourne.