Prost joins Senna… At Lotus Renault

The Prost and Senna names will be connected once again in 2011 after Nicolas Prost joined Gravity Management, the sister organisation to the Lotus Renault F1 team.

Prost will do some demo runs in a Renault R30 at Renault World Series events – a job that you might have expected third driver Bruno Senna to be invited to do, at least on occasion. Prost has already done a Renault demo at Magny-Cours last year.

At 29 Prost appears to have missed the boat as far as an F1 career goes, and he is currently at Sebring for the 12 Hours with Rebellion Racing. It will be interesting to see what plans Gravity – who placed Jerome D’Ambrosio at Virgin – have for the Frenchman.

Prost said: “I’m thrilled to have signed up with Gravity Sports Management. I have a busy year ahead and the pace is already hotting up for the start of the ILMC season out here in Sebring. Our pace looked good during the test at Paul Ricard so we’ll really hope to make the most of that this weekend.

“I’m also looking forward to the chance to drive the Lotus Renault F1 car during the year. It will be great to get another taste for the very latest top-of-the-range machinery, after the run I did with Renault F1 Team in Magny Cours last year. After all, it’s fair to say I have Formula 1 in my blood!”