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[Jabberwocky]

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/83919

Sakon Yamamoto will drive the HRT car instead of Bruno Senna in first practice for the Turkish Grand Prix.

The Japanese, who signed as an HRT test driver earlier this year, has been drafted in to help provide feedback on the car as the outfit bids to close the gap on the cars ahead of it.

HRT ran reserve driver Christian Klien for that purpose in the Spanish Grand Prix, while both its race drivers, Senna and Karun Chandhok, completed the whole weekend in Monaco because of the importance of track time there.

Sakon Yamamoto!!! you might as well ge the Cheeky Girls to host a talent show.

[headless]

[myownalias]

Maybe Senna and Chandhok aren't so great at giving feedback? If that is the case it would be better to run a test driver; who I presume would give better feedback!

[texasmr2]

Maybe Senna and Chandhok aren't so great at giving feedback? If that is the case it would be better to run a test driver; who I presume would give better feedback!

Makes sense to me aswell and dare I say I think a test driver would actually know the car better and what is needed.

[EwanM]

This was announced a little while ago so it isn't a surprise to see him in the car.

Shame that Di Resta wasn't in the FI today

[Denthúl]

Maybe Senna and Chandhok aren't so great at giving feedback? If that is the case it would be better to run a test driver; who I presume would give better feedback!

But Yamamoto? Seriously?

They signed Klien, who actually knows what he's doing. Yamamoto is a complete joke of a driver, I wouldn't trust him to polish the cars, let alone drive them! I imagine the only thing he is really bringing to the team is sponsorship money which, admittedly, they desperately need. But still, the guy is completely useless in a Formula One car.