20 May 2024
Swiss Leimer could be F1’s next rookie
Intensive negotiations with several F1 teams
Fabio Leimer could be a formula one race rookie in 2012.
The Sonntagsblick newspaper reports that the 22-year-old Swiss’ career is backed by Rainer Gantenbein, who says he has spent more than $17 million already.
Leimer is currently ranked 14th in the GP2 championship.
The Swiss newspaper said Gantenbein is in "intensive negotiations with several F1 teams" about the 2012 season.
"If Virgin demands five million (Swiss) francs, then that is what I will raise," he said at Monza.
The first step for Leimer will be his debut F1 drive during the young drivers’ test session in Abu Dhabi after the penultimate grand prix of the season.
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