With Bruno Senna believed to be in-line for a test with Honda's
Formula 1 team sometime following next month's season-ending Brazilian Grand Prix at Interlagos, rumours linking countryman
Rubens Barrichello to an IndyCar Series switch next year have re-surfaced.
The most experienced driver in the history of the top flight recently revealed his frustration at Honda's tiresome' silence regarding its line-up for 2009 [see separate story
click here], with the Brackley-based outfit repeatedly delaying any announcement until it is understood Singapore and Japanese Grand Prix winner
Fernando Alonso makes up his mind as to where he wishes to drive next season.
Whilst Alonso is seen as little more than a long shot now to join forces with the under-performing Japanese concern especially given current employer
Renault's impressive resurgence of late GP2 Series vice-champion Senna is reckoned to be a more realistic possibility, even if team principal Ross Brawn has previously stated his preference to see the Brazilian in a testing rather than racing role initially.
I see myself in Formula 1 soon, or at least I hope so, the nephew of the late, great triple
F1 World Champion
Ayrton Senna who has also been strongly linked to
Scuderia Toro Rosso is quoted by
F1SA as having told Spanish newspaper
Diario Sport.
It was rumoured during the Japanese Grand Prix weekend at Fuji Speedway that an announcement could take place at Interlagos home ground to both Barrichello and Senna in just over a fortnight's time.
Should Senna indeed graduate to the uppermost echelon with
Honda, it is believed that Barrichello is the most likely man to make way for the 24-year-old and, it is suggested, he could be set to head across the Pond to the IndyCar Series where he would rejoin old friends Tony Kanaan and Helio Castroneves.
