Christian Klien is still vying to join the Formula One grid for the 2011 season, confirming his manager is in constant contact with the Hispania outfit.
Currently, just one seat remains open, with all but HRT confirming their full-driver line-ups, though the Spanish team has confirmed one of their drivers in the form of Narain Karthikeyan.
“My manager Roman Rummenigge is in permanent contact with the team’s management,” Klien told his personal website. “Needless to say I would love to drive for HRT.”
The Austrian is confident that the team will make progress in their second season as they’ve managed to develop and build their own chassis in-house.
“I am convinced the team will make good progress and surprise a few people. In Geoff Willis and chief designer Paul White they have engineers who know very well how to build competitive racing cars. I would love to develop it further.”
Klien doesn’t believe Vitantonio Liuzzi of Giorgio Mondini have an advantage over himself, despite both of them taking part in pre-season testing for the team.
“All test were done with the 2010 car, which I have raced on five weekends last season,” he said. “Together with the race engineers I did a lot of setup work on it to improve performance. At the end of the season we were able to close the gap to the other teams although there was not a single new part all year long.
“Other drivers like Tonio or Giorgio Mondini have no experience in this car. From a team’s perspective it is only justified to get as much feedback as possible and test other drivers’ work.”
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