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Bruno Senna is bowing out of Formula One. Despite hoping to find a new seat after being replaced at Williams by Valtteri Bottas, the Brazilian has been signed up for 2013 by Aston Martin's sports car team. The David Richards-led Aston Martin Racing said Senna, 29, will "drive at each round of the WEC" this year. WEC is the FIA's world endurance championship, including the fabled Le Mans 24 hours. Senna is quoted by Brazil's O Estado de S.Paulo: "Until 2009, I always had victories […]
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Outgoing Williams driver Bruno Senna has said that he is not surprised that Valtteri Bottas has replaced him for the 2013 season. Williams confirmed on Wednesday that Bottas will join Pastor Maldonado for next season. "Since the beginning of my program with Williams I accepted that I had to share the car with Valtteri Bottas in 15 Fridays as a part of his preparation for a likely début in 2013", Bruno explained. Senna raced for HRT in 2010 before moving to Lotus for the last […]
Bruno Senna has admitted he has a "plan B" in the event Williams decides to replace him for 2013 with Finnish rookie Valtteri Bottas. Agencia Estado quotes the Brazilian as admitting he and Bottas, the team's Toto Wolff-linked 2012 reserve driver, "are in the same battle" for a single race seat for next season. "As soon as we saw that the battle was strong, we saw that we needed a plan B, because you can't wait until the end (of the year) to see whether […]
It was a disastrous race for local drivers Pastor Maldonado and Bruno Senna as both drivers crashed out early on. Maldonado spun exiting the Senna S on the second lap, while Senna hit Sebastian Vettel at Turn 4 on Lap 1. "We had an excellent start moving up several places but unfortunately I lost the rear of the car at Turn 3", said Maldonado. "It was a slippery surface and there wasn’t much grip which caught us by surprise at the beginning. There wasn’t much […]
Bruno Senna has said that the Brazilian Grand Prix will be helped by the 'amazing' home support. Senna has raced in two Brazilian Grand Prix, finishing 21st with HRT in 2010 and 17th with Renault in 2011. "I’m extremely excited to go back home for the final race of the season", he said. "Racing at your home Grand Prix always has a different flavour to it and the energy and excitement you get from the crowd is amazing". "I’ve only had the chance to race […]
It was another double points finish for Williams at the United States Grand Prix, but the team was left wanting more. Pastor Maldonado and Bruno Senna finished eighth and ninth. "After today's race I'm happy for the team, for the Venezuelan fans and for myself. I hope that this will be one of the best racing venues for Formula One", he said. "On the first lap I ran wide which meant I had to fight for places throughout but I enjoyed it because it was […]
Both Pastor Maldonado and Bruno Senna lamented the slippery surface of the Circuit of the Americas. "The circuit is really nice and it was fun to drive. It was very slippery, particularly this morning on the hard tyres, but it’s the same for everybody. We struggled a bit today with the car which we need to look at tonight in order to be ready for tomorrow", said Maldonado, who stopped at the end of FP2 with an engine leak. Senna was eighth in second practice. […]
Pastor Maldonado and Bruno Senna may have finished in the points for Williams but the Venezuelan driver lamented a KERS failure. Maldonado believes he could have finished on the podium had he not suffered a failure. "We missed the opportunity to finish on the podium today after we lost the use of KERS following the first safety car period. For sure there was more in the car", he said. "The pace was good and at the beginning I was closing the gap to Kimi but […]
Bruno Senna believes that making Q3 is a reasonable target for Williams this weekend. Senna handed over his car to Valtteri Bottas in first practice but managed eleventh in second practice. "It was a tough day today. Tyre degradation was quite high and we had a few braking issues which made it difficult to read what the car was doing", said the Brazilian, who is racing with a new helmet design this weekend. "However, we have a lot of data from today to work through […]
Williams drivers Pastor Maldonado and Bruno Senna had a challenging day in Korea as neither came close to scoring a point. Both drivers elected to start the race on the option tyre, with Maldonado stopping just once and Senna adopting the more traditional strategy of stopping twice. But Maldonado could only manage fourteenth, narrowly ahead of Senna, who lost a lot of time early on with debris caught in his front wing. "At the beginning of the race, we were too hard on the front […]
It was another disappointing day for Williams as neither car finished the Singapore Grand Prix. Pastor Maldonado suffered a hydraulics failure when in the running for a podium, while a late race KERS issue saw Bruno Senna out of the race. "The start was ok but I ran a bit wide on cold tyres losing a couple of positions but then we got into a good rhythm. Our pace was looking strong, as we were expecting, but then we had a hydraulic problem and that […]