18/01/2007
NEWS STORY
BCN Competicion has announced that Sakon Yamamoto (right), who contested seven rounds of the 2006 Formula One World Championship with Super Aguri, will drive one of its cars in the 2007 GP2 Championship.
Enrique Scalabroni - BCN Competicion Principal Director: "Myself, Jaime Pintanel and the whole team are looking forward for a very successful GP2 Series Championship and all our efforts are spent along this way, this is why we chose Sakon as our driver. In the forthcoming two weeks we will announce the name of Yamamoto's team-mate".
Sakon Yamamoto: "I am now very happy and excited about challenging in such a competitive category as GP2 for this 2007 season. I would like to thank all the people having supported me for realizing this opportunity. I will do as much as I can to fulfil the role in my position and I am looking forward for driving a GP2 car, I just can't wait for the forthcoming test!".
The team has yet to nominate its second driver.