- Alex Rossi will get a test drive in a Team Lotus F1 car next week at Abu Dhabi.
- Rossi will also compete for the GP2 junior team in that season's finale at Yas Marina.
- Rossi has been a competitor this year in one of the upper-echelon single-seater formula racing series.
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Alex Rossi, a competitor this year in one of the upper-echelon single-seater formula racing series, will drive in this weekend's GP2 race at Yas Marina Circuit and will get a test drive in a Team Lotus Formula 1 machine.
A story on the 21-year-old California native's Web site, alexanderrossi.com, stated that Rossi "showed great pace in both recent GP2 tests at Barcelona and Jerez and finished the final test session P2 after just three days in the new car."
Rossi drives for Fortec Motorsports in the World Series by Renault, where he ranks 3rd behind defending champion Robert Wickens of Canada and Jean Eric Vergne of France. Caterham Team AirAsia will field Rossi's entry for the GP2 season finale. Luiz Razia and Davide Valsecchi are the team's regular drivers. Valsecchi scored the team's only victory this season, at Montreal.
Romain Grosjean, who has five wins this year, has clinched the championship for DAMS. The GP2 format consists of two races which are staged as preliminary events on 10 F1 race weekends at tracks in Europe and the Middle East. Rossi will drive in races Saturday and Sunday at Yas Marina.
Rossi will get a full day's testing in the Team Lotus F1 car next week during a three-day session following Sunday's Bahrain Grand Prix.
The roster of World Series by Renault graduates includes F1 champions Fernando Alonso and Sebastian Vettel and other drivers including Heikki Kovalainen, Jaime Alguersuari, Pastor Maldonado and Robert Kubica.
Inside Line says: With races on the calendar in Austin, Texas, and metropolitan New York the next two seasons, attention is heating up again on the absence of American drivers in F1. Rossi's name is the first to bubble to the surface in many months.
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