Draco to run six at Vallelunga test.

Six young drivers have been lined up to test with reigning Euro F3000 champions Draco Junior Team MPA Multiracing at the two-day series 'taster' test in Italy, and the list includes a number of interesting individuals.

The test, which takes place at Vallelunga, close to Rome, over 2-3 December, will see Draco evaluate potential drivers for next season's Superfund-supported series, and follows on from the team's last outing - at Magione on 5-6 November - when it tested a handful of Italian youngsters from the lower rungs of the racing ladder.

This time, however, three of those involved have all proven themselves in similar arenas, with only Nicky Pastorelli, Marcel Engels and Alessandro Bonetti perhaps less familiar to outsiders.

The other trio - Neel Jani, Norbert Siedler and Mattias Lauda - have all raced at a comparable level in 2003, with Jani coming close to the Formula Renault V6 crown and testing with Sauber, Siedler impressing in a low-budget FNissan campaign and Lauda proving that he is more than the son of a famous name with some positive runs in the World Series Lights competition that supported the Superfund-backed FNissan championship.

Pastorelli drove in Euro3000 this season - as did Siedler, who made a one-off appearance in Cagliari, where he finished on the podium - while Engels steps up from the German FRenault series. Bonetti tested with the Draco team at Magione last month, and earned himself a recall.

"These will be the last tests, and then we'll see what Mr Morini chooses," commented Nadia Morini, the team's financial director.