Zoom Toro Rosso yet to announce its second driver

After just a season in Formula one, Sebastien Bourdais' immediate future in the series seems clouded.

The 29-year-old Frenchman, a multiple recent champion in the now defunct Champ Car World Series, raced for Toro Rosso in 2008 but on Monday did not feature on the FIA's official entry list for the forthcoming season with the team commenting recently that they are in no hurry to select their second driver.

According to earlier rumours from the US however, Bourdais was being considered by the Team Penske IndyCar team as a possible replacement for Helio Castroneves.

But Penske said on Tuesday that Australian driver Will Power is to replace Castroneves in testing while the Brazilian is engaged with a tax evasion court case.

Bourdais' old Champ Car team Newman/Haas/Lanigan Racing, now racing in IndyCar, had been suggested as another alternative for Bourdais, but Dutchman Robert Doornbos is now widely believed to have secured the team's second seat.

Another IndyCar seat at HVM remains vacant for 2009.

E.A, Source: GMM
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