The Lotus team confirmed today what everyone expected that their test and reserve driver Jerome D'Ambrosio will take Romain Grosjean's place for this weekend's Italian GrandPrix as a result of Grosjean's race ban for causing the massive crash at the start of the Belgian GrandPrix.
The team's decision to slot D'Ambrosio into Grosjean's seat was the most logical one as the Belgian driver has a season of F1 competition under his belt having raced for the Marussia F1 team in 2011, he also tested this year's Lotus car during a preseason test in Mugello in March.
So we don't have long to wait to see how he performs alongside Kimi Raikkonen. I think it would be fantastic to see him score some points and it would be an added bonus to the team if he and Kimi are once again able to challenge for the podium if not the race win.
In other Lotus related team news, their technical director James Allison has confirmed that the team will not run their Double DRS system until the Japanese GrandPrix in October. Only time will tell as to whether or not this was a good decision or not. The team had been scheduled to run the device in Belgium however due to poor weather on Friday for practice they decided against it.
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