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Not a good day for Liuzzi and Karthikeyan
Posted: Friday May 27th 2011, 07:55 GMT
Yesterday was tough for both Hispania Racing drivers. Liuzzi and Karthikeyan were slowest by quite a margin. "The afternoon session was a bit difficult," said Karthikeyan afterwards. "I think the car balance was better in the morning or maybe we just had a good run. I had some problems with my seat so we will have to sort out this issue. It took me a while to get used to the circuit so it wasn’t the best day overall. We will see how tomorrow goes."
The day of Vitantonio Liuzzi was perhaps even more disappointing. The Italian lost control of his car in the morning session and parked his car in the wall. Despite the crash not looking too bad, it marked the end of his day. "It has been a difficult day because I had an accident this morning and couldn’t run in the second practice session. I don’t have much to say, just that the car had a problem with the rear end over the bumps and on one of the laps the rear was completely lost coming out of the tunnel and we lost the car. We weren’t able to repair it for FP2 so now we have to look forward to Saturday and hope to have a better day."
Last year HRT qualified as 22nd and 22rd. They were 3.5 seconds faster in qualifying than they were today.
