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Fauzy to drive in Malaysia practice
Posted by on March 30, 2010
Fairuz Fauzy testing for Lotus in the winter
Lotus have announced that reserve driver Fairuz Fauzy will drive their car in Friday Practice for the Malaysian Grand Prix.
He will temporarily replace Heikki Kovalainen at the wheel. The former GP2 driver has been involved with several test sessions with Lotus before the season began.
While it’s good to see reserve drivers being given the chance to test their skills in an F1 car, I feel that this isn’t the right idea for Lotus. The car needs as much improvement as possible, and Trulli and Kovalainen are the right people for this job. While allowing Fauzy to drive is good for him, the sponsors and the investors (the 1Malaysia group), I would think that the return of having a better developed car is better than pleasing the sponsors and the home croud.
Of course, this is the Malaysian Grand Prix, a country that hasn’t had an F1 driver since Alex Yoong, and he didn’t exactly set the world on fire, so maybe Fernandes and Lotus want to promote Malaysia’s next top F1 driver.
Why would this annoy you? Your annoying me with this comment, many teams have done similar in the past displaying the driver of the home nation or Sponsors nation. Picking on him sounds discriminatory.
Ok I’m sorry about that, no discrimination intended. I just feel that Trulli and Kovalainen need the time in the car more than Fauzy at the moment. The car needs to be developed quickly if they are to keep up with the field, and for this to happen they need the experienced hands at the wheel.
But I did word my opinion completely wrong, and I’ll change that.