Lotus retain Trulli and Kovalainen

The FIA’s official entry list for the 2011 Formula One season has revealed six teams are still to confirm their full driver line-ups.

Tue, 30 Nov, 2010 - 16:30

The FIA’s official entry list for the 2011 Formula One season has revealed six teams are still to confirm their full driver line-ups.

The list published today confirms for the first time that Lotus – now renamed Team Lotus – will retain current drivers Jarno Trulli and Heikki Kovalainen.

Lotus join Red Bull, McLaren, Ferrari and Mercedes in naming an unchanged driver pairing, while Sauber were the only other team to name both drivers - with F1 new boy Sergio Perez confirmed alongside Kamui Kobayashi.

Vitaly Petrov’s future at Renault remains uncertain with the Russian absent from the list, although Robert Kubica is confirmed at the Enstone-based team.

Rubens Barrichello’s team-mate at Williams is also unconfirmed, with the team having already revealed that Nico Hulkenberg would not be retained.

Adrian Sutil and Vitantonio Liuzzi were also absent with Force India confirming neither driver, while no drivers were listed alongside Toro Rosso despite the team previously indicating both Sebastien Buemi and Jaime Alguersuari would be retained.

Virgin and Hispania also have question marks over both of their drivers for next season, although Virgin are widely expected to retain Germany’s Timo Glock.

2011 Formula One World Championship entry list:

Red Bull Racing

1 Sebastian Vettel

2 Mark Webber

McLaren

3 Jenson Button

4 Lewis Hamilton

Ferrari

5 Fernando Alonso

6 Felipe Massa

Mercedes GP

7 Michael Schumacher