Friday, 3 February 2012

Karthikeyan completes the 2012 driver jigsaw puzzle

The HRT team announced this morning that Indian driver Narain Karthikeyan will drive alongside Pedro Dela Rosa for the 2012 F1 season. The Indian driver drove for HRT for the first eight races of the 2011 season but was replaced following the European GrandPrix by Australian rookie Daniel Ricciardo who has moved to Toro Rosso for the 2012 season.

The announcement that Narain Karthikeyan will drive for HRT this season means that with just seven week's to go until the first race of the 2012 season in Melbourne Australia all driver line-ups have been confirmed. And they are as follows

RedBull Racing: 1 Sebastien Vettel
                        2 Mark Webber

Vodafone McLaren Mercedes:3 Jenson Button
                                               4 Lewis Hamilton

Ferrari: 5 Fernando Alonso
            6 Felipe Massa

Petronas Mercedes GP AMG: 7 Michael Schumacher
                                                8 Nico Rosberg

Lotus F1 Team: 9 Kimi Raikkonen
                         10 Romain Grosjean

Sahara Force India F1: 11 Paul Di Resta
                                     12 Nico Hulkenborg

Sauber F1: 14 Kamui Kobayashi
                   15 Sergio Perez

Scuderia Toro Rosso: 16 Daniel Ricciardo
                                  17 Jean Eric Vergne

Williams Renault F1: 18 Pastor Maldonado
                                 19 Bruno Senna

Caterham F1: 20 Heikki Kovalainen
                      21 Vitaly Petrov*

HRT: 22 Pedro Dela Rosa
         23 Narain Karthikeyan

Mrussia: 24 Timo Glock
              25 Charles Pic


Driver's marked in Bold are new line-ups for 2012. And number 21 Vitaly Petrov replaces Jarno Trulli

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