The dutch gp2 driver completed the 2012 season as the tony fernandesowned teams regular friday and reserve driver, and is reportedly now in the running to replace either heikki kovalainen or vitaly petrov. Erwin jaeggi journalist motorsport network linkedin. But being a born racer, he is still active in the world endurance championship with racing team nederland. Ericsson and nasr have contracts with the team for this year and sauber are in desperate need of the money they bring in. It makes sense, since honda will be supplying engines exclusively to toro rosso next season and they might want a japanese driver in the team. Giedo says he is not very good at drawing we have to say we think he would be better sticking to f1. He drove for the caterham f1 team in 20 and joined sauber as a reserve driver. Detailed karting statistics not covered by driver database. Mar 12, 2015 the starting lineup for this weekends australian formula one grand prix in melbourne could be decided by victorias highest court, with sauber appealing an earlier ruling to reinstate dumped. But he ended the year third out of their four drivers. Click on the year to see the standings for that year. Formula one drivers after years of pay drivers dominating the sport. He didnt want to say who his source was, but he was pretty confident about it. Click on the number of races to see individual races for that year.
The dutch driver has reached a settlement following a legal dispute. Every time his case against the team went to court, he won, yet the team. After losing his caterham drive, giedo became test driver at sauber, with the view to a permanent drive. The driver is married to denise boekhoorn, his starsign is taurus and he is now 34 years of age. That is one of the reasons people choose to use it. He drove for the caterham f1 team in 20 and joined sauber as a reserve driver in 2014. The dutch driver, who competed in 19 grand prix with the caterham f1 team in 20, will make his endurance racing debut at the first round of the elms, at silverstone on april 16. Next up its canada, a track ive never raced at but one i went to last year with caterham as reserve driver. Predicting driver moves, switches and rookies for 2015 f1. This year, there will be 4 drivers on the grid who have graduated from the gp2 series. Formula one driver who also competed in the formula three euroseries, formula renault 2.
Later in a career, after he switched to bigger cars, he won two international championship titles in the 2008 formula renault 3. I sat in on all the briefings and debriefs last year so i have quite a bit of information about what its going to be like from 2012, and ive spent quite a bit of time on my sim at home trying the track, but you obviously dont really know what its like until. Former f1 driver not blown away by nicholas latifi. If my memory is right that pic was the faster driver. The dutchman, 27, will partner frenchman charles pic. The decision effectively ends the f1 career of finn heikki kovalainen, who had driven for caterham, and its forerunner lotus racing, since 2010. Seemingly unable to persuade the teams for a racing role, giedo went back to prove his racing talents by stepping back to feeder series formula renault 3.
Sauber appeal over ruling forcing them to give giedo van. However, with the financial muscle behind him now, he finds his big chance. The insult is reminiscent of the australian veterans ridicule. Im not dissappointed with the fact that another pay driver has joined the grid, im dissappointed with his mentality. Former f1 driver doubts latifi is good enough for f1. I produced motorsports content for various clients of jhed media, including the dutch and belgian internet portals of msn, television networks rtl and sbs, cable company ziggo and car manufacturers toyota and spyker. Six years after his first f1 test he will make his f1 debut. The insult is reminiscent of the australian veterans ridicule of first lap nutcase romain grosjean last year. After leaving f1 the dutchman switched to sports cars, and currently drives racing team nederlands lmp2 in the wec.
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