Perez admitted his objective is to race for Ferrari one day.

Ferrari had high praise for Sergio Perez after the Mexican on Thursday tested one of the Italian team’s single seaters for the first time. A race rookie with Sauber in 2011, 21-year-old Perez is also a leading member of Ferrari’s driver ‘academy’ and tipped as a possible future replacement for Felipe Massa.











Romain Grosjean insists he does not want to close the chapter on his brief formula one career. The almost 24-year-old Swiss-Frenchman took over from the sacked Nelson Piquet last year, driving the R29 at the final seven rounds as the ‘crashgate’ scandal struck and Renault lost chiefs, sponsors and the support of its carmaker parent. 


With only rookies with less than three official F1 events under their belts eligible to drive, nine out of the ten teams that contested the 2009 world championship fielded single cars on the opening morning of the three-day session. 
Renault will race with an unchanged livery in Brazil this weekend. It had been speculated that, in the wake of ING’s departure as title sponsor, the team might launch a new image for the final two races of 2009 by dropping the orange from the livery of its R29 car. 

The ING Renault F1 Team heads to Shanghai for round three of the world championship this weekend: the Chinese Grand Prix. 

