Glenn Freeman

Citing Braun taking over Honda, Red Bull taking over Jaguar and then Minardi, Force India taking over BMW,

Jordan Midland Spiker, that being the way to do it.

He also said there were a great deal of people in the US who want to be involved in F1 because it had this global appeal.

So even if the US market didn't yet understand F1 in the way that it does today, companies found it more appealing than domestic series like IndyCar or NASCAR because of that global reach.

John, as I said, you did this interview at the time.

Do you think he's been proved right by everything that's happened with F1's incredible growth in the US in the last decade?

We'll be right back.

But he felt the Lotus story had already moved on from people wondering if they would survive.

And he wasn't taking any criticism or negativity around their performance seriously.

However, he also felt that F1 needed to change, saying the costs needed to be addressed and that the sport should be simplified and made more fun.

Although alongside that, he said it should move closer to the car industry to become a good provider of knowledge.

what's more fun than the car industry you can't simplify it and make it car industry relevant i think that's been f1's problem for about 30 years now ed anyway let's talk about lotus a back market team i don't know a modern ed's sheds contender you might say was lotus getting much respect in the paddock at this stage of 2010 i guess purely from being the best of those new teams that were coming in and struggling so much

Yeah, so that's the best of the new teams.

Let's talk about the worst next, because HRT was in the news before Turkey as it had split with Dallara, which had designed and built the team's first car.

In announcing the split in quite a lengthy statement, actually, the two sides said that they felt they had achieved more than could have been reasonably expected by just about getting the team's cars ready for that first weekend.

in Bahrain.

However, the team's statement also said that no development work had been carried out on the car yet, and there were reports in the media that senior figures within HRT had been unimpressed with the build and design quality of the car.

Test driver Christian Kleen had said the car was not quite F1 standard, and HRT's technical consultant Jeff Willis said the level of engineering doesn't reflect current F1 practice by some margin.

as the car was missing a lot of tricks that would be taken for granted by anyone in the pit lane today.

John, was it probably for the best that we've got this team up and running, maybe HRT and Dallara should go their separate ways?