Marussia joins HRT in failing their car’s crash test – Formula 1 news
Marussia becomes the second team to fail in its car crash tests.
The FIA has made it compulsory for all cars to pass car crash tests before they care allowed to take part in the season. HRT was the first team to fail the crash test and have been trying to get it passed before the third pre-season test.
Marussia failure to get their car pass the crash test will mean they may not be able to feature in the third and final test prior to the 2012 season.
Charles Pic and Timo Glock were also disappointed as they were really hoping to get some track time on the new car. Now they will have to adjust to the new car during the season which is not an ideal situation for any driver.
Marussia ran their 2011 version car during the first and second pre-season tests and got great reliability from the car as it ran for around 1500 kms. The car broke down during the second test and the team management decided that they are now going to focus
on the new car.
“It's a real shame that after three very positive days with the car we've encountered this issue on the final day,” Booth said. “We can't be too downhearted though, having achieved over 1500kms of near faultless running from a car that has served us so well
from a reliability perspective. Aside from further mileage for Charles there was nothing more to be gained from our programme to aid our development and we now switch focus to the 2012 car, which we are all looking forward to rolling-out next week.”
Marussia will now be looking to get their act together and get the car passed before the season starts. Even if they get the car ready and passed in time without any testing time on track the team is already starting behind other teams. It will mean a slow
and tentative start to a very important season.
Marussia was previously known as Virgin Racing and has been revamped for the 2012 season. It will be sad to see the team off to a bad start.
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