Dude, we all want Sakon Yamamoto and Colin Kolles to go home.
Not sure what your problem is with those two. Its not Yamamoto's fault that Chandhok lost his seat. (I assume thats why you don't like Yamamoto)
Kolles has proven himself pretty handy at keeping very small low budget teams running in F1, even if he appears slightly ruthless.
Ah. I have been playing close attention this season, so I gather these 2 having causing problems out on the track. If so, I can understand why that would make the team in general quite unpopular.
Nope, Yamamoto is just a pay driver who has replaced another pay driver in Chandhok. He isn't a particularly brilliant driver so people don't understand why HRT bothered to hire him - the real reason is that Yamamoto is bringing money (rumoured to be $1 million per race, which is paying for the development of the 2011 car). While Chandhok is looking for a drive elsewhere, rather than wasting his sponsors money on a car he might not drive.
Colin Kolles is the team principal of HRT and has built a reputation of being slightly ruthless in his management decisions. However, he has now run MF1, Spyker, Force India and HRT and kept them running where they may otherwise have fallen bankrupt.
Personally, I would actually say Kolles is one of the few reasons why HRT even managed to start the season. If he hadn't come in to organise the team, it would never have got this far.
The fact HRT managed to even run on pace with Virgin at some points in the season and also feature the best reliability out of all of the new teams (even Sauber had worse reliability!) means they must have been doing something right. (if you don't know, the HRT was designed by Dallara but was not finished off properly due to late payments by Hispania. This is why the HRT is so badly off the pace this season, not to mention they didn't even make any testing)
In Lotus and HRT, you can clearly see the handywork of two of the best small-team managers in F1 - Gascoyne at Lotus and Kolles at HRT.
Why could Codemasters make the Lotus faster? Then people would all just pick Lotus. F1:CE made the 3 bottom feeders pretty much identical. HRT FTW!!!
No they were not. Try running a lap or two with Super Aguri and then Toro Rosso in F1:CE. There is a performance difference. Thats why the test to get into Toro Rosso tended to be more difficult than the other two in Career mode.
Codemasters will make Lotus the fastest new team for the same reason they won't make Sauber the fastest team overall - to keep it realistic. I don't think they will make it ultra-realistic, where Virgin is faster later on, etc but they won't make the teams equal.
You can generally say they will base performance according to the Constructors positions with a little bit of tweaking for specific charateristics such as the Red Bull being fastest on ultimate pace but perhaps not the most reliable for drivers or machinery, the Mercedes tending to be more understeer-prone, etc. It depends how realistic they have made the game, at the very least they should have made Red Bull faster than McLaren and Ferrari who are about equal in speed terms.
