Bruno Senna will continue to race for HRT for the remainder of the season despite being dropped for the British Grand Prix, his team said in a statement on Friday afternoon.

HRT revealed on Thursday night that they had dropped Senna in favour of Sakon Yamamoto for Silverstone, although no full explanation for the driver change was made.

The team said that an explanation would be given on Friday morning but the statement did not arrive until mid-afternoon. HRT explained that it simply wanted to give Yamamoto an 'opportunity' to drive at the British Grand Prix.

The statement read: "In respect to the rumours about Bruno Senna's current status with Hispania Racing, HRT F1 Team, the team wants to confirm that Bruno Senna has all the support of the Spanish team, that he remains one of the Hispania Racing, HRT F1 Team official drivers and that he will be continuing to drive in the remaining races of the 2010 Formula 1 world championship."

Yamamoto has started 14 grands prix in his career for backmarkers Super Aguri and Spyker in 2006 and 2007 but never scored a point.

Neither team principal Colin Kolles nor Senna has been willing to comment on the matter so far.