Caterham’s Jarno Trulli insists his F1 seat is safe for next season

Italian driver Jarno Trulli insists he is confident of keeping his place in the F1 team Caterham for the upcoming racing season.

«We are safe, yes. I do understand the position of some teams and that unfortunately, economically we are going through a very tough time worldwide and there are some teams that are running into trouble. I don’t know the real situation of the teams but I do know that they have to look for sponsors and paying drivers, so at the moment all I can say is I am contracted with the team and I will be testing,» said the Italian.

«If something different happens I hope that someone from the team comes and talks to me earlier, but so far we never had a talk about it through the winter. At the last moment they signed van der Garde and it is important for the team to have a third driver with a bit of experience, so they let him drive,» Trulli said. He did a reasonable good job in mileage and from there we will start programming the next few tests because I was scheduled to drive at the beginning,» he added.

Some reports in the press suggested that Trulli may be replaced by former Lotus Renault Russian driver Vitaly Petrov, who is out of contract this season.