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HRT happy to be in front of a Virgin, sad it wasn't both

Posted: Saturday May 21st 2011, 19:01 GMT

It was a good day for the Hispania Racing Team. Vitantonio Liuzzi and Narain Karthikeyan finished the day as 20th and 21st. "Today's qualifying had some positives and some negatives," said team principal Colin Kolles afterwards. "The positive side is that we were quicker than one of the Virgins and made some steps forward. The negative part is that we could've had both Virgins behind us but Tonio didn't have the best lap."

The German is happy to see his team further up the grid: "My impression is that we made some progress and will make some more, let's see what happens in the race. We will use a strategy which best suits the car, not too different from the rest. We'll try and run as much as possible on option tyres."

Last year HRT didn't finish the race. Bruno Senna had a first lap accident and Karun Chandhok had a suspension failure.

Bruno Senna

Colin Kolles

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