Formula 1: HRT might sue Karun Chandhok for contract violation
Hispania Racing Team recently revealed that they have signed the first-ever Formula 1 Indian driver Narain Karthikeyan for 2011 season and it seemed that the team might keep Karun Chandhok as well.
But HRT have now said that they are considering taking Chandhok to the court since he has not been following his contract with them.
According to Colin Kolles, Chandhok was dropped by the team because of this reason mid-season in 2010. He failed to fulfil his contractual obligations.
“When he signed an agreement with us for the 2010 season, Karun made a lot of promises on paper. But he failed to fulfil his obligations. We waited for some time, but we didn't have any other choice than to suspend him at the German Grand Prix,” said Kolles.
It seems that Karun is out of HRT’s list and as expected, the team is going to decide their second full season driver alongside Narain Karthikeyan very soon. It is expected that the team might choose either Christian Klien or Sakon Yamamoto.
On the other hand, Karun Chandhok is struggling to find a seat for the 2011 season and it seems that he might not be able to find one since there are just a couple of seats left up for the grabs.
“However, we did everything diplomatically. We didn't make it public. Since then, Karun was never in the team's radar,” Colin added.
Other than that, Karun’s sponsor paid only €2 million out of around €8 million which were promised according to his deal with HRT which adversely affected them.
Since Chandhok was unable to give a good performance either, the team’s debut performance was poor but they hope to change things in 2011.
“We were planning to do certain upgrades on the car. But everything got disturbed,” Kolles claimed.
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