He speculates that the Lotus Racing team could have up to four pilots reserve in this 2011.
He is already known that Davide Valsecchi and Luiz Razia have almost certainly his active participation within the Lotus team to be running the T128 sessions on Friday morning Grand Prix.
And Karun Chandhok is also close to a role with the team of Hingham to support pilots race; Jarno Trulli and Heikki Kovalainen.
But the media this weekend suggested that another contender for the post of Tester and reserve is 26 years old Portuguese born in Angola, Ricardo Teixeira.
In his training career, including the GP2 and formula 2 Teixeira had the support of the Angolan oil company Sonangol.
After the rest of the F1 teams sailed in Valencia last week, and attention turned to the presentation of the new McLaren in Berlin, Lotus lagged behind and Teixeira spent some time on the T128 Lotus.
"I am very happy that I could help with filming (car) and my first experience of an F1 car I can't wait to have another chance," he said.
Mike Gascoyne said Teixeira "defended very well and that's exactly what we needed to do".
