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Oct
18th

F1: Sauber team to test Esteban Gutiérrez and Robin Frijns

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From press release

The Sauber F1 Team will be testing Esteban Gutiérrez and Robin Frijns at the Young Driver Days in Abu Dhabi to be held from November 6 to 8, 2012.

Frijns will be driving on the Tuesday, the first day of testing. The 21-year-old Dutchman won the Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup in 2011 and this coming weekend will be contesting the title in the 2012 Formula Renault 3.5 World Series on the Circuit de Catalunya. In the run-up to the final he is five points adrift of the championship leader.

Robin Frinjs F1 Sauber
Robin Frinjs. (Photo: Renault)

For Gutiérrez, the Young Driver Days will mark his fourth test outing with the team since he first got inside a Formula 1 cockpit in late 2009.

Also aged 21, the Mexican joined the Sauber F1 Team as an affiliated driver and since 2011 has been the official reserve driver for the F1 team. He will be test-driving in Abu Dhabi on the Wednesday and Thursday.  

F1 Sauber Esteban Gutierrez
Esteban Gutierrez. (Photo: Sauber F1 Team)


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