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Trident not worried about rookie drivers

On Wednesday the GP2 teams will travel to Paul Ricard to continue their preparations for the 2007 GP2 season. Trident Racing is one of the teams taking part in the test session. The team will bring its drivers Hirate and Maldonado, both rookies in the GP2 championship, but not something that would worry Trident Racing Team Principal Alessandro Alunni Bravi.

In 2007 two talented young rookies, Pastor Maldonado and Kohei Hirate will drive Trident's cars. The Japanese, who ran in the F3 Euro Series in 2006, is one of Toyota's official developmental drivers, while the Venezuelan, former Italian Formula Renault 2.0 Champion, joins the GP2 after a successful year in the World Series Renault.

To race in the challenging GP2 series you might expect each team to have at least one experience driver. But Trident Racing Team Principal Alessandro Alunni Bravi doesn't agree: "Young drivers are always an exciting challenge: I always believed that talent overcomes experience, so I don't think that having a rookie as a driver is that much a downside if, of course, the rookie is well talented, with a solid technical background and a professional attitude.

"Though both Hirate and Maldonado shown in the past all those qualities, we expect the first part of the season to be difficult due to the limited testing schedule and the few practice time during the events shared with Formula 1.

"If our drivers will manage to understand the new tires' evolution during the one-lap shootout and carry the pressure of the race, I think that we'll get many satisfactions during 2007. For Trident Racing is more significant to obtain good results by letting two rookies drive than hiring a professional."

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