HRT: F1's Worst Team?
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- Опубликовано: 20 янв 2025
- Today we take a look at one of the new teams that joined the F1 circus in 2010: HRT. The team would last in the sport for just 3 years before collapsing at the end of the 2012 season. Was their time in Formula One succesful? Well, not really. And today we will go over how the team started, and its quick downfall to beome one of the worst F1 teams to grace the grid.
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Let me know what you thought and any other teams/drivers I could cover
Midland
Life
Life Racing Engines (90) - An amateurish Italian effort who purchased an abandoned 1989 F1rst chassis and built their own engine. The L190 powered by a Life W12 engine was comfortably the worst car in F1 history. No, seriously. It was notable for having a body held together by tape, glue and hopeful thoughts, an engine that peaked at 420HP on the few occasions it even worked in a season where the title-winning Mclaren was putting out 700. The team was infamous for lacking basic equipment like tyre pressure gauges and constantly trying to borrow them off of rival teams. The engine had constant misfire issues meaning its fastest time in San Marino prequalifying was over seven minutes and when the team eventually replaced the W12 with a Judd engine the engine cover didn't fit properly and blew off on a straight.
Tecno F1 (72 - 73) - Another Italian effort by a team trying to make their own car and engine in the early 70s. Not nearly as awful as Life but so clueless they were half a year late in joining the 72 season and even then built their car several inches wider than the rules permitted, realised this only days before their debut and hurriedly chop-shopped the suspension to make it narrower.
Lamborghini Modena SPA (91) - Originally supposed to be GLAS Lamborghini until the owner mysteriously disappeared with the entire (albeit very small) team budget leaving a half finished, very weirdly shaped and awful car that was eventually run by Modena to... zero success.
Mastercard Lola (97) - A well documented failure rushed to track a year early, built with F3000 (F2) technology and didn't even see the inside of a wind tunnel until around the time it was due at its first race.
Pacific Racing (94 - 95) - A sucessful F3000 (F2) team that tried to jump to F1 and faceplanted hard. The PR01 was basically a two year old Reynard F1 prototype based on the B192 purchased by a group who barely had any clue or budget. The car according to one of their drivers had the torsional strength of spaghetti. In their second year they purchased the husk of the old Lotus team and struggled on for another year but things did not improve much.
US F1 - The 'other' recent failed team that was granted an entry in 2010 only to be so inepty managed that by the time the season was due to start they'd produced a few renders of a very primitive looking car, a chassis tub mould and not much else. The FIA was so unimpressed they straight up banned the owners and the team from ever entering F1 again. Notable for being part-owned by former Williams engineer and current RUclips F1 pundit Peter Windsor.
Can you make a video of Peugeot F1 team?
what about Andrea Moda?
For a team with name Hispanic Racing team they sure signed a lot of Indian drivers
What two......
@@the_red_barron1002 the only 2 ever
'Cause some sponsors like Tata are Indian companies
All the Indian F1 drivers drove for HRT........
And no Indian has ever raced for Force India
The three teams who joined in 2010 entered under a false promise of a budget cap. Once it failed to materialise it was the death lock for the three of them.
And Marussia/Manor GP almost survived the false cap. Had they secured 10th place in the constructors on the 2016 Season, they could still exist and fight in the backpart of the midfield, with the Williams and The Alfa Romeos
Yep, they literally spent for the whole season what some teams spend in one race
In defence of HRT (despite how poor they were) they were the only team that didn't really get bought out unlike Virgin that became Marussia and then Manor Racing, Lotus Racing that became Catheram and was planned to be CF1 for 2015 but folded before that came to reality. As for the car, drivers (besides Dani Ricc) it was a pretty bid shambles I'll agree :)
Actually they did, HRT began life as Campos Racing and entered F1 as Campos Meta before Campos was bought out by José Ramón Carabante and rebranded as HRT
Dream f1 team: Andrea Moda Lola HRT F1 team powered by Life engines. Drivers: Juyi Ide and Taki Inoue Team principal:?
Oh god can you imagine...
Team Principal: Mattia Binotto
Team Principal: Mattia sBinotto
Team principal: Claire Williams
You forgot one crucial part
Test and Reserve driver: Mahaveer Ragunathan
I have one counterpoint to your premise: MasterCard-Lola. That is all.
They will get an episode eventually don't you worry
What about Coloni?
I one-up you with Life Racing Engines.
Andrea Moda - Let us introduce ourselves
Or EuroBrun
These new teams were set up to fail, Bernie and Max promised some amazing cost capping and closer racing for 2010 but that never materialised. It's surprising HRT survived 3 seasons.
some of the cars in the 80s that never got out of pre-qualifying are strong contenders
Yea agreed, Andrea Moda was the next team I covered and I keep meaning to go over Life, coletti and Lola too
Williams 2019. Pretty obvious one. Also, Life is another one. Apparently at the Monaco GP, they were slower than F3 cars. Great video man. Keep up the good work! 👍👍👍
Thank you man! Will have a look at those!
he is saying team that has been te worst in all season they have been in,not a car for 1 seasons
Life are a genuine contender whichever way you look at.
BMPH didn't Life enter the 1989 season with a F3000 car before building a proper F1 spec that year? Though as regards that team did they ever pre qualify and actually race?
@@simonbutterfield4860
There's two teams in this story: "First Racing" modified a F3000 car and planned to enter F1 1989 season with Judd V8 engines. Their initial chassis failed mandatory crash test. Second one passed, but was so badly overweight that they withdrew from the season before first race. Ernesto Vita bought that second chassis and use it for Life team in 1989.
When I was younger I remember the unique chequered livery being so cool, all the cars looked so cool back then.
You’d think HRT were the absolute worst but they actually finished ahead of Virgin in 2010 and 2011
That’s pretty crazy in itself, they never even ran 24 and 25 on their cars
HRT are barely even top 5 worst
Top 3 are
1. LIFE
2. Andrea Moda
3. Lola/MasterCard
honestly without the dumbarse messages on the front/rear wings and sidepods, i kinda liked the 2011 hrt livery. though i will admit, 2010's still my favourite, helped by the rather nice looking dallara chassis.
Seeing this video in 2024 makes me appreciate how your content has just improved in all areas (and this was a good start)
Cant wait to see how you could improve in the future!
I dread to go back and watch how bad the jokes are in this video 😂😂
5:05 best livery ever
I know, just something else right!
Ima be honest, without the cringy and embarrassing messages the livery is actually usable
Edit: USABLE, not "good"
I actually love this livery. However rather than the cringey "please sponsor us" messages they should have just done a Top Gear and made some sponsors up, Penistone Oils and Larsens Biscuits would have been hilarious to see on an F1 car.
@@gioprox5207 its the best livery ever
Loved this, as someone who is only casually interested in F1 I still found this entertaining and a great bite-size gateway into the sport, keep it up!
Really appreciate this! Thanks for the support mate!
Amar Birdi Yh I agree. This was such a great insight into HRT from how they started out to where they ended up in 2012.
I feel Sabotaged I can do 60Kph in a tractor and have sufficient funding
😂😂😂
Rosberg wasnt lapping the hrt in the abu dhabi crash
I disagree, I’d argue what they achieved was actually pretty amazing considering they had less budget than Lotus/Manor, didn’t design or manufacture large parts of their cars themselves (Dallara did a lot of the first car), had less testing and were the only (and I think first) team based in Spain. Of course they didn’t score points but they were competitive with Lotus & Manor/Virgin
Wasn't HRT the reason the 107% rule was put in? They were literally so slow that in some races they didnt set a time fast enough to be allowed in qually.
It's the reason they brought it back, the 107% rule was in F1 years before this ..
In F1 Racing magazine in early 2010, Bernie Ecclestone was asked which of the (then four) new teams would score the most points. His answer? "Difficult to predict. Possibly Campos."
R.I.P❤️
Worst? Nah just the worst in awhile. Andrea Moda has that permanent worst sport for trying to murder their driver straight up.
Covered them in this series as well
Kinda feel bad for de la Rosa. He actually was a really really good driver who never actually got the car he deserved. Even with arrows and jaguar he was decent
Did he not get a stint with McLaren at some point? Or maybe that was just as a test driver I don't remember. But you have a point there for sure
@@FP1Will Yea he did. 2006 Hungary and finished instantly on the podium. There are some 90s and early 2000 drivers who went under radar like him Badoer Moreno and possibly Klien
Keep meaning to make a video on badoer thanks for reminding me 😂
At least HRT Tried to be a competitive team
Fun Fact:
HRT's former headquarters is now a concert venue.
La caja magica
Ngl... The Caterham looked nice 😂 fight me
Not gonna disagree here. The 2010 livery especially was amazing
0:07 He got roasted by the song meme😂😂😂😂😂
Given the utter lack of resources at their disposal and their chaotic ownership history, I think HRT was a much more successful outfit than either Virgin/Marussia or Lotus/Caterham.
I was watching this with my friends, about half of them jumped off the roof hearing that song
Hahahahaha
This F1 car was brought to you by... THIS COULD BE YOU
0:10 😂😂😂😂 He just retched and puked😂😂😂
Hey at least HRT almost beat burger king wifi
Great video chap! Andrea Moda was the worst team hands down.
Thanks man! Glad you enjoyed!
I've got a video already on Andrea Moda, they sure we're an interesting bunch haha
@@FP1Will Ha! I'll go watch it then! Cheers.
Brilliant stuff, really enjoyed the video
thank you! really appreciate this, more to come!
Its Hormone Replacement Team in the words of Christian Horner
This was a fantastic video Will. Look forward to seeing more 👍
Thanks Jeb!! More on the way soon...
Precise, concise and interesting video. You can make video on same team drivers not getting along with each other apart from Rosberg and Hamilton.
oooh thats a shout. vettel vs webber perhaps... Thank you for the support mate!
Yes. Multi 21 Seb.. Multi 21. Hahaha.
As a big Webber fan that day hurt a lot...
Haha, I love the way you Present😂😂 hopefully I can get as good as you overtime!
Thanks man! Honestly I've been at youTube for 8 years now, and only really found my niche in the last year. Gonna sound cringy but the best way to do it is watch a lot of people and build your own personal style around your favourite creators. I've had a look at your channel and you're making a good start man! RUclips is slow at first (still in that phase myself) but it will reward you if you keep pushing
FP1 - Formula Podcast One thanks bro, Rome wasn’t built in a day is the way I look at it. Good advice, cheers bro
Respect to any 'smaller' channel willing to risk monetization to make a really, really good point.
haha cheers
Cars where not great but they sure as hell looked good!
I would like to see a video on Midland and Spyker, could combine it into 1 as they're both 1 year entries
Very good idea that!
@@FP1Will There is also Life and Forti. Keep up the good work.
Life is coming this weekend!! Thanks!
Please do a similar video about MasterCard Lola, you would need to dive into a lot of research, though they were truly the worst team in the history of F1, far worse then HRT.
That is on the list for sure! gonna come back to this series once the season is in full swing!
FP1 - Formula Podcast One .........................
Rumor has it the original HRT car was a demo chassis. They never got the race chassis from Dallara. If anyone want s a source for this, Karun commented on this in 2020
Huh, very very interesting if true
That's not really a "source" now, is it? You've just said "well so and so said so"
@@MrSniperfox29 so and so is one of the drivers of the team, not an unnamed source. I don't want to add a link in my comment, but it's literally mentioned in the HRT F110 Wikipedia page. If you want to find it, he tweeted about it on the 5/3/2020
@@kimiesta it’s fake it’s not going to happen in next year
@@louisbeerreviews8964 what?
Enjoyable. Look forward to the next one.
Thanks David! Think I might turn this into a series...
You have your own spin and style to them so why not.
worst f1 team of the 21st century, certainly not of all time. still great video man
Yeah agreed! This is all part of a series so Andrea Moda have been covered as well. Thanks for the support!
What qualifies as an F1 "team"? - USGP had bought the rights to join the field, but never made it out of the car development stage. - & from what I heard (from a forum board friend who knew one of the engineers), it was a sh!t show from day one.
Life Racing Engines? Andrea Moda?
Andrea Moda have already been covered in the series, on the channel already😊
the livery got me dead
It was horrid
Hormone Replace Team...
Awesome brother!
thank you man!
By the looks of it, the whole team should’ve gone on HRT themselves before starting team HRT... (i tried making a joke)
I get it!!
Can you make a video on the Peugeot F1 team?
will add it to the list!
@@FP1Will Thanks
they were bad but they're far from being the worst team in F1 (same for Caterham & Marussia). id say they're not even one of the worst teams ever (maybe of modern F1, but not of all time) they atleast managed to qualify and finish the races most of the time, unlike u know... Life, Coloni, Andrea Moda etc. its just a shame since they entered F1 under the promise of a budget cap that ultimately never happened thanks to fucking Red Bull, so that doomed these 3 teams to suffer and struggle through a few years and eventually disappear. w/ that budget cap they probably wouldve been able to establish themselves as a mid-low team on the grid, and it obviously wouldve been positive to have more teams and maximize the amount of seats (remember if it werent for Lance Stroll's dad we wouldnt even have 20 seats today)
Not gonna lie this team is as depressing as a cosworth engine - oh wait what engine did they use now
🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@FP1Will honestly hrt had the worst liveries ever and we're the worst thing ever , honestly they are depressing to me
HRT was not good at all, but the worst was Andrea Moda for sure...at least HRT could make it to the end 😂
That's why Andrea Moda was the next team I covered! They were awful 😂
Was that a clip from Lance Stroll's musical career?
Andrea Moda, Mastercard Lola and many others: Hello there
I think it would be a stretch to say that HRT are the worst team in F1 history. Sure, they were slow and were very unlikely to score any points, but they were at least able to (mostly) qualify for and finish races. In 2010, they were able finish a race before Virgin (partly due to the latter having a fuel tank of insufficient capacity to run at full power from beginning to end)
With a finish of 13th at Canada 2011 and the fact they were last in only 1 season they competed (2012) this basically has them outside the top 10 worst teams in the sport on our results
@@Duval-In-The-Wall agreed, I would put teams like Mastercard Lola and (the ironically named) Life as far worse than any of the 2010 new teams (Life not only failed ever to prequalify, but they were on par with F3 cars of the day, and the poor drivers were terrified that they'd be hit from behind by other cars, their car was so slow)
I like the video however in my mind there's no competition abnout the worst team in F1, Andrea Moda has that spot secured for all time, at best it's a competition for second worst and in that case they are a strong candidate
Glad you enjoyed. This is actually a series and Andrea Moda was episode 2. If you're interested give it a watch 😉
@@FP1Will already seen it just had to point out the obvious ;)
Hormone Replacement Team
Hahaha
"poor team" in the modern era but not in history that goes to andrea moda and life. yet thoase two names even sound depressing
P14 5 laps from the winner and 3 laps from the previous WTF?
Have you seen Life f1 team? Never made it out of prequalifying and had an incredible lap time of 7 minutes in san marino, 5 minutes away from the next slowest car lmao
andrea moda set the base line, hrt is not that bad a team in comparison
this is a series, so andrea moda have also been covered :-)
Several teams did worse than HRT.
MasterCard Lola, Life, Simtek, Pacific, EuroBrun, and more did worse than HRT.
Several of those have been covered as well in this series
Surprised you didn’t mention Vettel vs Narian at Montreal
This HRT's to watch
Great video but there are images of Colin Kolles lol. He has an english Wikipedia page with a picture of him on it
Yea lol not sure how I couldn't find one XD
@@FP1Will No worries mate still loved the video haha
>Kolles
That's how you know a F1 team is going to die.
😂😂😂
Does the man have a history?
@@joshuagabrielcatindig7607 An extensive one. I'm surprised FP1 couldn't find a picture of him, he's everywhere.
hrt is arguably one of the worst teams but you can use many different factors to determine the worst team, whether it be pace, driver treatment, management, how prepared they were for f1 in terms of equipment, funding and others
Yea you're right, which is why this turned into a long running series in the end
Baby really was his best song no cap
Baby was a banger ... dont @ me
im sorry?
2:25 Really the UK COVID response was like the 2010 Red Bull Campaign compared to the US response
😂😂😂😂
We don't have a proper response because Orange Man stupid, bad, and fascist
The music.
Worsed of all time, dude your far too young to know the real mystery of Life , Andrea Moda and coloni, at least the 2000s versions could turn up qualify and finish races.
This is a series mate, life will get an episode soon trust me 😂
at this point, jokes about Baby-era Justin Bieber are more cringeworthy than the actual music
*Laughs in Andrea Moda*
I think Andrea Moda still takes the cake for WOAT.
Also covered them in this series
@@FP1Will oh don't worry, I am.*very* aware 🤣
Is it as bad as Super Aguri though?
They'll probably get an episode at some point
*nobody beats mastercard lola on that category*
They will get an episode soon don't you worry!
@@FP1Will *ohh that's great... well i hit the subscribe button for that. cheers!*
Thanks bro!
Andrea Moda win hands down
I dunno... I think the 4th new team for 2010 had it over HRT in the shit stakes.
Stefan GP? or wasn't there an American team that didnt make it? Probably another video there tbh 😂
@@FP1Will USF1.
@@BlueSkyBS yep thats the one
no way. andrea moda is a far win in the worst category
Haha go and have a look at the next video in the series. 😉
The team Life (in italiano) mean anything to you?
Will be featuring on he next episode of this series
Don’t hate on the beibs dawg
Damn bro, then Justin Bieber song goes hard though
in 90's there were many teams that were even more trash
2:31 don’t worry, the government is insecure.
Worst team of the 21st century so far. But I think Andrea Moda and Mastercard-Lola are much worst than HRT.
Not sure HRT is the worst.
I would think Andrea Moda is worse by a mile.
The Justin Bieber mention was good...
sorry but I really liked HRT, dunno why but they replaced Minardi in a way xD
Lola Mastercard is even worst
If you are talking off bad stuff then you should make a video of Mahaveer Raghunathan
haha that is tempting, very tempting, mkight see what he decides to do this season, give me even more to work with XD
Moda take the worst team award .
Sorry, Hispania are three laps behind for that one 🤣
Make a vid about caterham🙂
Stay tuned this Saturday 👀👀👀
Surprising that Dallara built such a crap car.
The background music is annoying AF
Andrea Moda and Life, hold my beer
Andrea Moda have already been covered in this series. Life will also get an episode at some point
People sleeping on marussia rn
I do miss manor/Marussia/Virgin in F1. They looked like they were finally going places in 2016 before they went under...shame really
FP1 - Formula Podcast One Wehrlien was unfairly kicked out aswell I want to see him back soon
agreed, sadly I think that ship has sailed...
Unfortunate acronym alert! 😅