Fellow Spaniards BCN Competicion tested any number of drivers over the winter, including GP2 racewinners Jose Maria Lopez and Ernesto Viso, but eventually plumped for a novice line-up in the shape of
Super Aguri F1 refugee Sakon Yamamoto and Tung, who steps straight from winning the Recaro German F3 Cup. The Chinese driver has yet to turn a wheel in GP2, having been signed as a late replacement for Ricardo Risatti after pre-season testing had been completed, so will count on his A1GP outings for a power reference, while Yamamoto has yet to move far from the bottom of the timesheets, suggesting it could be another tough year for Enrique Scalabroni's squad.
David Price's DPR operation suffered a turbulent 2006 with the loss of much-hyped Direxiv backing and having to replace veteran Olivier Pla with the untried Petrov, and, at first sight, appears to have taken on a tough task with an all-rookie line-up for 2007. However, highly-rated Spaniard Andy Soucek comes to the British team with a strong showing in World Series to go with his surprise 2005 Spanish F3 title, and has shown that he may yet develop frontrunning pace in his first GP2 campaign, while Denmark's Christian Bakkerud won in a competitive British F3 series and could surprise.
DAMS possesses one of the strongest feeder series heritages, but has yet to turn it on in GP2. However, with the signing of series veteran Nicolas Lapierre, the French team could turn things around in 2007. Lapierre will also have reason to try harder than most, having yet to win at this level, despite running with Arden for his first two seasons. He is now fully healed after his Monaco shunt in 2006 and will be looking to mix it at the front. The Frenchman is paired with another of Japan's rising stars and, should his recent testing and F1 outings be anything to go by,
Kazuki Nakajima will be there or thereabouts too.
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