up as an affiliated driver, and in 2011 and 2012 he was our test and reserve driver. We mapped out his path to Formula One step by step. Esteban has great talent and now he's ready to take the leap. We are in no doubt we have a strong driver pairing in place for the 2013 season with Nico Hlkenberg and Esteban Gutirrez." Although I like the fact that we might have 2 fellow Dutchmen in formula 1 next year, I feel that Frijns has more potential to become a long term addition to the formula 1 field, just like Jos Verstappen once was. Van der Garde is a bit too old and thus less interesting for other/better teams. Maybe this will encourage Honda to return to F1 and support a Japanese driver. It would be nice to see both a U.S. team and a Honda or Japanese team. Toyota provides Nascar engines. No reason exsists for them to not provide F1 engines. To make its NASCAR engine Toyota simply modify the engine from the Tundra. To supply F1 engines they would need to develope a whole new motor with turbo technology they havent used since th supra! Would cost hundreds of millions of dollars and that is why thy got out of F1 in the first place. Any news on what's happening to Heikki and Vitaly? Heikki certainly deserves a seat somewhere and I would like to see Vitaly on the grid. I heard senna is rumoured to get