The final Young Driver test of the 2012 F1 season gets underway later today at the Yas Marina Bay circuit in Abu Dhabi. six team's elected to hang back following Sunday's race to allow their young driver's participate in a three day test programme.
Race winners Lotus along with, RedBull, McLaren, Caterham, Sauber and Toro Rosso will all field driver's over the three day's.
Lotus will run four title world champion Alain Prost's son, Nicolas, they will also run Edoardo Mortara and Davide Valsecchi will be given an opportunity to drive for the team.
Over at McLaren, they will run Test and Reserve driver Gary Paffett along with Oliver Turveythey will also test Kevin Magnussen.
Over at Caterham, test driver, American Alexander Rossi will get behind the wheel to prepare for his F1 weekend debut when it is expected that he will run for the team in Austin next Friday during Free Practice, he is joined in Abu Dhabi by Giedo Van Der Garde who drove the Caterham F1 car in Dublin earlier as part of the Bavaria City Racing event.
Reigning champions RedBull Racing will field Portugal's Antonio Felix Da Costa along side Dutch driver Robin Frijns.
The Sauber F1 team will be running Esteban Gutierrez, who stepped in for the "unwell" Sergio Perez during Friday Practice in India. The team are continuing to evaluate the young Mexican as a potential replacement for the McLaren bound Sergio Perez. Robin Frijns will split his time between RedBull and Sauber so that in my opinion is going to be extremely interesting.
Finally, Toro Rosso will have Luiz Razia and Johnny Cecotto in action.
So out of the six team's who are not participating in the test, Marussia, HRT, Force India, Mercedes AMG, Ferrari and Williams only Marussia have elected to send personnel directly from Abu Dhabi to Austin for the GrandPrix of Texas.
So it is going to be extremely interesting to see how the new crop of F1 talent get on over the course of the next three day's. As always I will keep you all updated with developments from the UAE.
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