Albers dropped from Spyker

Christijan Albers has been dropped from the Spyker team with immediate effect. The highly rated but somewhat unlucky driver has sponsor trouble. Albers, who finished last at the British Grand Prix last weekend and had a pit lane refueling incident at the French Grand Prix will be replaced before the next race in Germany. Possible replacements include Christian Klien, Marc Gene, Narain Karthikeyan and Giedo van der Garde.

Klien might have to be released from a Red Bull contract but is probably the most race experienced having raced for Red Bull Racing and Jaguar. Marc Gene is next most experienced at racing but has huge amounts of testing time for Williams. Karthikeyan has many potential sponsors – which will be of great interest to Spyker – and van der Garde already tests for Spyker but has very limited race experience but is Dutch.

It would be a shame to see Albers go, not with standing the fact that a Dutch team is forced to remove a Dutch driver from the team, he has an air of incident that followed Jos Verstappen.

Posted by Jules at July 10, 2007, 10:17 am - Comments (1)
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