Liuzzi to be Ditched?


By Ian Lockwood
July 27 2005

Christian Horner has revealed that American Scott Speed is the lead contender for taking the Friday test role at Red Bull Racing next season. This could mean Liuzzi is looking for a new job.

Christian Horner was talking about the reasons that Red Bull Racing had signed up to an extension of the Concorde agreement citing that whilst F1 does need improving, you know what you are getting whilst the plans of the GPMA were still a little sketchy.

More tellingly he revealed that Scott Speed (currently 3rd in the GP2 Series) is the front runner for the Friday test drive role in 2006. Red Bull are already on record as saying they will not continue the driver swap routine next season. With DC already signed up, this means that if Speed does get the Friday job, either Klien or Liuzzi is out of a job. Based on performances so far this season it looks like Klien would get the drive alongside Coulthard, leaving Liuzzi out in the cold.

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