De la Rosa set to be 2nd Sauber driver, Heidfeld discarded





By The Offsider

January 3 2010

Spanish driver Pedro Martinez de la Rosa, to the date test and third driver of Mclaren-Mercedes, is about to be confirmed as the partner of Kamui Kobayashi in the Sauber team.

As we announced in this article the 2nd driver of the Hinwil-based squad is on the verge to be signed.

Now, going into further in-depth, we can inform that Peter Sauber has dropped Nick Heidfeld out of the list, with the "experienced man" believed to be the Spaniard Pedro Martinez de la Rosa.

According to Peter Sauber this driver will spring a surprise -well, not to us!- and is a man who will bring new ideas and new knowledge to the team; and if that wasn't clear enough, Peter discards again Nick Heidfeld when asked specifically about him.



The original interview can be found at: http://www.nzz.ch/nachrichten/sport/aktuell/ich_wuerde_das_wieder_machen_1.4421319.html

From what we have been told De la Rosa is being backed by a Spanish financial entity, believed to be the giant Santander, although another source has told it could rather be a Catalan entity -La Caixa-; in either way, the backing figure is expected to be of around 4 millions Euros, which would be very welcome at Hinwil. Nevertheless, we hear that this was not the main deciding factor for Peter Sauber.

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