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Valsecchi prefers Lotus reserve role to backmarker race seat
8 March, 2013 Davide Valsecchi (second left) in the Lotus 2013 driver line-up
Davide Valsecchi, the reigning GP2 Series champion, insists he would rather be a Lotus reserve driver than a racer for one of Formula 1′s back-marker teams.
A look at the standings of last year's GP2 championship shows that drivers Italian Valsecchi beat to the title – Esteban Gutierrez, Max Chilton and Giedo van der Garde – have successfully made the step up to the F1 grid for 2013.
But 26-year-old Valsecchi, struggling with fewer sponsors, has to be content with the reserve role at Lotus, having admitted recently that he received offers to race, but only if he could meet those teams'...
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