Sorry this is late. I've been busy with work. Anyway, this week I am looking at my favourite new driver, Karun Chandhok.
Name: Karun Chandhok
Date of Birth: 19th January 1984
Place of Birth: Chennai (Madras), India
Sport: Formula 1 racing
Car number: 20
Team: Hispania Racing
Number of F1 races so far: 10
Best finish this season: 14 (Melbourne)
Worst finish this season: 24 (Bahrain)
Average finish this season: 18
Retirements this season: 4
Average qualifier this season: 23.4
Points this season (up to Hockenheim): 0
Points in whole career: 0
Best career finish: N/A
Wikipedia page: Here
The second Indian driver in F1 after Narain Karthikeyan in 2005, Karun Chandhok is having his first season in the sport after time in GP2 and other motor racing divisions. He also seems to be having a part-time career as a BBC comentator as his team switch around their drivers. Only Hispania have changed any of their drivers so far, giving Sakon Yamamoto his chance.
Although Chandhok always qualifies fairly far back on the grid, he does well in the races. In fact, out of the drivers in the new teams, he is the best finisher, being the eighteenth best in the Grand Prix. This puts all the other new team drivers, and De La Rosa in the Sauber, as worse finishers!
I'm not sure why I like Chandhok so much. Maybe part of it's that new drivers are getting closer in age to me. Maybe it's because my brother spent some time in India this year. He's also quite a fun guy to listen to on the TV, because of his crazy knowledge about facts from formula 1 history. He's finished six out of ten races this season, and I hope he continues in F1 and can get into a car that can drive well enough to be really competitive.
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