Can someone translate? MotorsportMagazin.com - Actually, yes, it should remain secret, what motorsport Magazin.com learned at the beginning of the week, but now it is slowly trickling through in the Spanish media: Since last Sunday evening is the contract between Bruno Senna and Campos finally signed. translation from German: http://translate.google.fr/translate?hl=fr&sl=de&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.motorsport-mag azin.com%2Fformel1%2Fnews-87558-exklusiv-senna-unterschreibt-bei-campos-kampf-ums-zweite-cockpit.htm l
This is wonderful for Bruno although I shall miss seeing him in the sports car paddocks - super nice young man, always friendly. Here's another version... RIO DE JANEIRO -- A racing official says Bruno Senna will drive next year for new Formula One team Campos. A Brazilian official involved in the negotiations says the 26-year-old nephew of three-time world champion Ayrton Senna completed a deal to drive for the Spanish team last weekend. No other details were disclosed and the official asked on Thursday not to be named because he was not authorized to discuss the deal. Calls to Campos' Madrid office weren't immediately answered. Senna had said during this month's Brazilian Grand Prix that he was in talks with three teams, including Campos. Before Ayrton Senna died at the San Marino GP in 1994 he had predicted his nephew would one day be an F1 star. He lauded his then 8-year-old nephew's driving skills, which he witnessed on the family farm near Sao Paulo. Shortly after Ayrton Senna's death, Bruno's father was killed in a motorcycle accident. The combination of the deaths made racing off limits for young Bruno. "It was kind of a taboo. I just had to respect the pain and the family, I just had to cope with it," Senna told the Associated Press last year. His mother, Viviane, refused to let auto racing enter her son's life for the decade after his father's death, even if her brother had seen promise in Bruno as he tore around the family farm. But when he was 18 and she asked him what he wanted to do with his life -- he was working at a car dealership to stay close to cars -- the answer was simple: He wanted to race. In 2005 he was invited to test a Formula 3 car in Valencia, Spain, before eventually competing in the series. Senna jumped to GP2 for 2006. Last year he finished second in driver standings in the F1 feeder series. He then left to focus on finding a seat in F1. Earlier this year, Senna tested a Brawn GP car, but was passed over for fellow Brazilian Rubens Barrichello.
Confirmed by the team this morning http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/79887 Which now just leaves the question of whether he's actually good enough to be ascertained next year
Campos has a wind tunnel model and a signed driver at the beginning of November. What have the other two teams to show for at this point? C'mon Jean, you can do it! Sauber-Ferrari deserves a spot on the 2010 grid.
He'll be another Gorsjean imo. Haven't watched him in sportscar racing, but he was pretty unimpressive all through last year in GP2.
+1 Win/win, if he's up the grid, it's the driver in a newbie team/car, if not then what can you expect from a newbie team/car? Williams will show the true potential of the Cosworth package and be the benchmark. That's where Fischi stepped on his *****!
When Eddie Jordan was asked this morning on BBC if all the new teams would make the grid he replied no, probably only two and then we can have Peter Sauber back. Carol
+1. He had his moments but wasn't consistent. Kobayashi on the other hand was. Good feature race but actually managed to crash in the 5-6 sprint races...consecutively. Anyways I like Kobayashi, surely Japan's best F1 prospect since...ever? I really didn't expect any of him as I've been watching him GP2.
