Articles Tagged ‘Jordan’

Lotus confirm Trulli, Kovalainen and Fauzy for 2010

Monday, December 14th, 2009 - Posted by Jack Sargeant

Lotus team principal Tony Fernandes with new chief executive Riad Asmat

Lotus have today confirmed their drivers for the 2010 Formula 1 season – Jarno Trulli and Heikki Kovalainen in race seats with Fairuz Fauzy the team’s third driver. The announcement was made by Malaysian Prime Minister Dato’ Sri Najib Tun Razak in Kuala Lumpur.

Trulli was left without a drive when Toyota left F1 at the end of the 2009 season. He is a veteran of 219 races, collecting 246.5 career points but just one win since his first race in 1997. He has driven for Jordan, Renault and Toyota.

28-year-old Kovalainen has been in F1 since 2007 where he raced for Renault before moving to McLaren for 2008 and 2009, before being replaced by Jenson Button for 2010. Kovalainen has raced in F1 52 times, collecting 105 points but only one race win.

Fairuz Fauzy, a Malaysian driver now on a Malaysian team at Lotus. 27-year-old Fauzy is a veteran in the formulae below F1. This year Fauzy finished 2nd in the World Series by Renault.

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De la Rosa’s F1 return hopes over?

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009 - Posted by Jack Sargeant

Pedro De la Rosa

It seemed that Campos Grand Prix had secured their driver line-up a while ago, with the rumours circulating that Bruno Senna and Pedro De la Rosa were to drive for the new team in 2010.

Since then, Bruno Senna has been confirmed as a Campos driver for 2010, but is seems that Spaniard Pedro De la Rosa will not be so lucky.

Team boss Adrian Campos has said that the lack of Spanish sponsors for De la Rosa may be a problem, also citing they may have a couple of other drivers on their shortlist. He said:

“I would like Pedro de la Rosa but he is Spanish and Spanish sponsors are in a bad way. There are other options from Russia and Venezuela but it all depends on the sponsor.”

Pedro de la Rosa has driven in F1 previously for Jordan, Arrows, Jaguar and McLaren from 1999-2006. His highest ever driver’s championship finish is 11th and his highest ever race finish is 2nd, with both of those results coming when he drove the latter half of the 2006 season for McLaren, when Juan Pablo Montoya left the team. De la Rosa has been the test driver for McLaren for the last 3 years.

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