Karun Chandhok rejects safety fears over untested Hispania F1 car

By Tom Cary 715AM GMT 10 March 2010

Debut Hispania group drivers Brazilian Bruno Senna (left) and Indian Karun Chandhok (right) with group executive Jose Ramon Carabante Photo GETTY IMAGES

Chandhok, who will expostulate to one side associate debutant Bruno Senna this year, was usually denounced last week following months of doubt during that his group looked cursed to disaster usually to be taken over at the 11th hour by Spanish office worker Jos Ramón Carabante and rebranded Hispania Racing.

Hispania did not have any of the pre-season tests and will spin a circle for the initial time on Friday forward of Sunday"s Bahrain Grand Prix.

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David Coulthard wrote in hisSport mainstay on Tuesday that asking them to do this was "irresponsible". "Has the universe left mad?" Coulthard wrote.

"Formula One is a dangerous competition at the most appropriate of times. For a group who have been up and using for years it is formidable sufficient to pass the difficult FIA pile-up tests whilst accumulating competent miles to infer the firmness of tools that are not compulsory to be tested; for example cessation parts, that as a sign to all keep the wheels trustworthy to the car."

However, Chandhok, who becomes the second Indian motorist in F1 following Narain Karthikeyan, says he has finish certainty in Dallara, the Italian manufacturer that has built Hispania"s chassis.

"I have driven Dallara Formula 3 cars, universe array cars, GP2 cars they are a conjectural manufacturer so when they contend that the car is protected I have no subject outlines per the reserve angle," he said.

"It"s not going to be the Lewis Hamilton debut, I won"t distortion to you. If we finish the competition it will be a teenager miracle. But these are the cards we have been dealt with. No one is holding a gun to my head. This is what I select to do competition in F1. This is the event I have got.

"I mean, if the contrast regulations were the approach they were when DC proposed at Williams, afterwards you would contend "OK, I will be a exam motorist with a tip group and afterwards goal one of the drivers breaks his leg". But the approach the manners are, it doesn"t have that most clarity any more."

McLaren handling executive Jonathan Neale pronounced on Tuesday that he approaching the FIA to step in if it looked if Hispania, one of 3 teams creation their debuts this deteriorate to one side Lotus and Virgin Racing, were struggling.

"I wouldn"t similar to to be an MD with a car using for the initial time on a GP Friday in conditions of the trustworthiness package," he said.

"I"m certain that the FIA will see really closely at it and if there are big gaps in shutting speeds and copiousness of red flags, afterwards they"ll take the required actions. And it"s critical that they do since we don"t wish nonetheless some-more casualties prior to the begin of the season."