Hispania Racing will not run on Saturday

Hispania Racing will not run tomorrow because certain parts of the car, the dampers, were not released by customs.

Colin Kolles, Hispania Racing Team Principal: “Unfortunately we could not get the dampers out of customs. The result of this is that we can´t run tomorrow. This is life and we will overcome this problem.”

"Anyway we will be much better prepared for this season. We have many more spares, we are more in shape, and we have a better car. I’m definitely convinced that the performance of the car will be better than last year’s car. We have made a step forward in performance. I don’t think all the others have recovered the loss in performance, so let’s see what happens in Melbourne.

"Last winter there was nothing - I started on 7 February basically to build up a team. The situation this year is totally different. We have a team, we have an efficient team, but we’ve had to build a car. In both things we are very efficient. For this I want to thank everybody and I’m really proud of them."