A significant sponsorship deal with Brazilian oil company Petrobras could help pave Bruno Senna’s way into a Formula One race seat for next season.
The company are happy to heavily back the youngster, who is being seen by many as a future world championship winner.
Petrobras are already sponsors at Williams, and this might force Kazuki Nakajima out of his race seat, there would be no place for him at Toyota as they have just confirmed Timo Glock.
BMW Sauber and Toyota have apparantly discussed test roles, leading into subesequent race seat in 2010, and Honda Racing F1 have fulled driver change speculation by saying they are looking at him for 2009. If they were to bag Fernando Alonso too, this would look like a very promising line up.
“If a very good team offered me a test drive for a year and a race drive for the next year, that’s a good prospect. But I’d primarily prefer to have a race seat,” Bruno Senna said in Hungary last weekend.
“I have my eye on [Bruno] Senna” Honda CEO Nick Fry claimed “But we haven’t made a firm move yet”.
