Some would say it was about time, but today Lucas di Grassi has confirmed that he will be driving in F1 next year with one of the four new teams, be it; Virgin, USF1, Lotus or Campos. di Grassi said;
“It will be in one of the four new teams entering the sport. It’s a dream come true, of course. It’s fantastic. I am well-prepared, I was reserve and test driver at Renault for two years. My goal is to enter F1 to stay, in a solid way, to get results and create a future.”
The 25 year-old di Grassi performed impressively in this year’s GP2 series with the Racing Engineering team – he finished 3rd overall taking 1 race win. At the start of the month di Grassi was present at the young drivers test in Jerez, driving for the Renault team.
I’ll bet anything it is Manor well Virgin Racing or whatever it is called lol
This could work well. Di Grassi a young rookie and Timo who has potential and some experience. Timo is also veyr good on a one stop which will be crucial to a new team which is most probably at the back. That benefits Lucas as he’ll have a good driver to learn from.
I’m not sure on him but I think he could actually be good at F1 but it’ll still be very tough with lack of testing.
I agree, nice point well made!