Chandhok to drive for Lotus in practice
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Karun Chandhok, Lotus, Melbourne, 2011
Karun Chandhok has been confirmed as Lotus’s reserve driver.
He will drive for them in the first practice session at Melbourne and other sessions during the year.
Chandhok is the fourth driver to take up a non-racing role at the team, joining reserve driver Luiz Razia and test drivers Davide Valsecchi and Ricardo Teixeira.
Chandhok, who drove for HRT in the first half of last year, said: “I’ve been talking to the team for quite a while about a role with them and I’m delighted we’re now able to confirm that I will be driving for Team Lotus in 2011.
“The details of exactly which sessions I will be in the car for are being worked out now and after having spent some time with them at the recent pre-season tests I can see exactly how passionate everyone in Team Lotus is about taking this team back to the top of the F1 grid.”
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owain bright said on 23rd March 2011, 11:50
i think chandhok is going to be one of the reserve drivers, like hulkenburg, who will be looking to make an impression. if all goes well and karun’s times are good i wouldn’t bet against him taking trulli’s race seat for 2012.
hulkenburg will find it a little more difficult to break into force india, whether that be via di resta or sutil getting snapped up by a bigger team I don’t know.
definitely not a step back, lotus is a good team to be involved with.