Nick Heidfeld will Renault R31 testing this week at the Jerez circuit to be a substitute for the injured Robert Kubica.
Former driver Sauber replaced the ejected Pedro de la Rosa in 2010, has become the leading candidate to replace Kubica to Renault in 2011.
Although the Lotus Renault GP team has five pilots reserve and announced that Bruno Senna will be rolling in Jerez, Eric Boullier announced yesterday that the team is looking for an experienced pilot to deal with the square of the Polish Kubica.
Heidfeld had talks with Renault in the last 48 hours and has reached an agreement to be behind the wheel of the R31 in Jerez. Vitaly Petrov will start the tests as scheduled, on Thursday and Friday will be Bruno Senna and Nick Heidfeld who will be rolling the car innovative black and gold.
"We have to wait to Jerez tests now and also fortunately the Barcelona and see how the car," said Lopez at IVG.it
"There are drivers who have had good runs, for example, Nick Heidfeld". We all know that Nick is pretty good but we don't know what level now, we don't know how will do it with our car. I just tested Vitantonio Liuzzi, the same happens with Bruno Senna, who last year was on another computer with a car that could not do anything "."
