Sutil to stay at Force India?
Although Jarno Trulli has a contract to stay with the Japanese team next year, there is still some uncertainty about Toyota's intentions for the Italian veteran for 2008.
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Newly crowned GP2 champion Timo Glock has been confirmed as a race driver for the new season, and renewed rumors now suggest that Sutil, who is 24, could join his countryman on the Melbourne grid next March after travelling to Cologne with his manager Manfred Zimmerman last Monday.
"That's a lie," Zimmermann told the Dutch magazine Formule 1 Race Report.
"In the past six months Adrian nor myself have visited the Toyota factory," he insisted.
Zimmermann reiterated that it is "a hundred per cent certain" that Sutil will honor his contract to stay with Force India in 2008.
Beyond that, Sutil is keen to step up with a bigger team, Zimmermann admitted, revealing that he is "in conversation with several teams" about 2009, and not only Toyota.
Meanwhile, to the Spanish news agency EFE, rookie hopeful Roldan Rodriguez revealed that he is expecting Force India to finalize its 2008 driver lineup early in January.
12/04/07 (GMM) Colin Kolles has rejected reports that Force India has already determined its driver lineup for the 2008 season.
No fewer than seven potential candidates for a seat with the newly-purchased outfit will test at Jerez this week, but rumors suggest that Vitantonio Liuzzi and Adrian Sutil have already been selected to race next year.
The pair, along with Spanish rookie Roldan Rodriguez, embarked on a fitness camp last week near Munich, but Kolles said the training session was not officially sanctioned by the team and therefore not a hint about the 2008 lineup.
"We have not yet made any decision about drivers next year," he told the Force India website.
Kolles added: "Adrian Sutil will stay with the team for at least one more year – we have always been very clear about this – but we do not have any other confirmed drivers.
"I have read some stories about Liuzzi training with Sutil and Rodriguez, but this was a private training session and not anything officially organized by the team," he said.