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Lotus: Four drivers, two seats

Saturday 28th November 2009

Lotus F1 team boss Tony Fernandes has revealed that four drivers remain in the running for the team's first season in Formula One.

Lotus will join the Formula One grid next season, and although preparations are well underway with regards to their 2010 challenger, at present their driver line-up is little more than speculation.

Fernandes, who recently revealed that the team had already signed one driver but refused to name him, has now stated that there are four candidates from which the team much choose.

"Have to decide on four drivers for two seats," he said on his twitter page earlier this week.

And although Fernandes did not elaborate, those four drivers are believed to be Jarno Trulli, Kamui Kobayashi, Takuma Sato and also former F1 World Champion Jacques Villeneuve.

Earlier this week, Villeneuve visited Lotus's UK headquarters, spending a day touring the team's facilities.

"Jacques' visit is an honour for Lotus and Lotus is a team," CEO of Group Lotus Dany Bahar said.

"Our people are a blend of talent and expertise combined with passion for our brand. Our highlights are theirs, so this is a special day for us all."

Your Comments

mcglenn81

"Two Legendary F1 names, Villeneuve in the Lotus, sounds good to me. I hope the car's Livery is completely Black or Yellow.

I would love it if Villenuve got the chance to be in a competitive car. One thing about Villenueve is that no matter how much complaining we did about the little amount of overtaking in F1, he always managed to contribute more than his fair share and I remember reading F! Racing and a good few of the drivers said Villeneuve was very hard to overtake, he just knew where to defend. He's great battler like his father and I think the new rules will suit him.

Hope he gets the seat, I'm sick of all the teeny boppers in F1, we need guys like Villeneuve, Montoya back on the grid to spice things up."