Chandhok to replace Trulli for German GP

Luke McVicar · Jul 21, 2011

Chandhok will be replacing Trulli for the German GP as Lotus tries to fix its power steering issue which has plauged the Italians season this year, he will return agian for the hungarian GP: http://en.espnf1.com/lotus/motorsport/story/54672.html

Personally i think this is awesome as Chandhok really deserves a drive atleast somewhere, he performed quite well last year agianst senna but was dropped due to sponsership.

Chris Jenkins · Jul 21, 2011

I like Chandhok, but £10 says he crashes at some point over the weekend.

Wojciech Grabowski · Jul 22, 2011

I don't think Chandhok is better driver than Senna (Bruno of course...). They were driving together for 9 races. Karun won 7 times, but Bruno got 6 retirements (Chandhok only 2). In 3 races, which they both finished, Senna won 2 times.

Also look on qualifying. Bruno Senna won 7 times...

Situation of Power Steering for Jarno is really bad. That bad, he resigned from start. If new one works well, on Hungary we will see stronger Jarno, I hope so.

Luke McVicar · Jul 22, 2011

but if you look at sennas driving, it was completely riddled with piquet esque mistakes which shouldn't of been had, Karun was alteast conisistent, and race conditions matter the most in f1.

Chris Jenkins · Jul 22, 2011

6.8 seconds off the pace in P1.
Better than Ricciardo and the 2 Virgin drivers

Christian Burge · Jul 22, 2011

is he gonna drive in the indian gp coz lotus we get loads of money for that

Chris Jenkins · Jul 23, 2011

Well my £10 is safe!

Yann Laprevotte · Jul 23, 2011

I don't know what's with the hype about Chandhock, the guy was nowhere in GP2 in the 3(ish) season he's done. Then he somehow gets to F1, more or less matches Senna in the most rubbish team of the last 10 years, and becomes the new paddock hero. Weird.

Luke McVicar · Jul 24, 2011

i think its more to do with hes freindly personality as well though.

Brian Duddy · Jul 24, 2011

Yann Laprevotte said:
I don't know what's with the hype about Chandhock, the guy was nowhere in GP2 in the 3(ish) season he's done. Then he somehow gets to F1, more or less matches Senna in the most rubbish team of the last 10 years, and becomes the new paddock hero. Weird.

There are a bunch of people that refuse to believe that Bruno Senna is not actually that good, so in order to continue their beliefs Chandok has to be really, really good.

Ross Balfour · Jul 25, 2011

Yann Laprevotte said:
I don't know what's with the hype about Chandhock, the guy was nowhere in GP2 in the 3(ish) season he's done. Then he somehow gets to F1, more or less matches Senna in the most rubbish team of the last 10 years, and becomes the new paddock hero. Weird.

I agree! I feel Senna is a better driver though, but neither are good enough for an F1 drive IMO.

António da Cunha · Aug 2, 2011

I also feel that Bruno Senna might be not good enough for F1. Probably people have the need to believe that he is good, due to some sense of nostalgia about Ayrton Senna. But, Ayrton Senna there will always only be one.

Chandok is nowhere near F1 quality, in my point of view.

Luke McVicar · Aug 2, 2011

Well if you compare Chandhoks race to Ricciardos first race its similar(granted ricciardo hadn't even touched the car till friday first practise where as chandhok has done friday practise sessions and winter testing), the problem is with the lack of testing its extremely hard to just jump in a car and be fast, and since those rules have been implemented(start of 2009) only Kobayashi has been able to jump right on the pace without any race experience during the season, from my knowledge.

Adam Eggbeer · Aug 2, 2011

Chandhok only done 4 Free Practice 1 sessions for Team Lotus. In the first he crashed on the installation lap in damp conditions. In the next two he had car issues, and at Silverstone it was wet. So I don't think he had too much of an advantage over Ricciardo who had done several Free Practice 1 sessions this season, albeit for Toro Rosso, before he raced at Silverstone.