Alguersuari to be confirmed

As at the end of 2009, Jaime Alguersuari should team up with Sébastien Buemi. If the latter has been confirmed for a long time, the Spaniard nevertheless seemed to be in difficulty in recent weeks. Other names had been announced, those of Daniel Ricciardo, pilot of the Red Bull Junior Team and very sharp in Jerez (see elsewhere), and Bruno Senna, recruited by the Campos team, whose project did not always seem very solid.

But Helmut Marko stepped up to protect his driver, who will keep his seat in 2010 at Toro Rosso. " I?ve never heard of [Senna], he told 422race.com. It will be Alguersuari. There are just a few contractual details to settle but it will be Alguersuari. » According to the Austrian, the officialization is planned and Franz Tost, director of the team, “ knows exactly when » the Spaniard will be renewed in his post.

In addition, the boss of the Junior Team drivers confirms that Mirko Bortolotti is ousted from the sector, a few weeks after participating in the rookie tests at Jerez. “ It?s true, yes. He was offered a tub in F2 but we wanted him to move to Milton Keynes, where our other drivers are, like Ricciardo or Hartley. This allows them to work on the simulator and make comparisons. But he refused to go to England, that's why we stopped. » However, even with Bortolotti moving across the Channel, it seems unlikely that Red Bull would have agreed to pay the Italian for a second full season in F2, when he had failed to do so. convince his management in 2009.