Magnussen one step away from race seat

Kevin Magnussen, son of former F1 driver Jan Magnussen, is now just one step away from becoming the next Dane in F1.

McLaren has promoted the 20 year old from their Young Driver Programme to reserve driver for Jenson Button and Sergio Perez at this weekends Chinese GP, if anything should happen to one of the drivers. He will also be a reserve driver for the drivers during the Bahrain Grand Prix.

“I am to follow all practice sessions, as well as the race from the pit, and attend all the meetings between drivers and engineers. That way I am able to jump to the task with short notice, and I will no doubt learn a lot as the weekend unfolds,” said Magnussen.

“Both here(China), and Bahrain next week, I amthe official reserve driver. Therewill be more races during the season, but those are not planned yet.”

Marco Sørensen close to Lotus test seat

Danish race driver Marco Sørensen, 22, is reportedly very close to signing a deal with the Lotus F1 team, to become their test and reserve driver for 2013, a source says.

Speaking on Danish TV2, the Formula Renault 3.5 Series driver for Lotus revealed that he had some interesting news in a week, but could not yet disclose the nature of it. Sørensen is heavily tipped to become the team´s test driver, after a solid performance for Lotus´ Formula Renault team, picking up 3 podiums and 6th overall in the standings.

Fellow Dane, Kevin Magnussen, son of former Stewart Racing driver Jan Magnussen, also did well in 2012, with 7th overall in the same series as Marco, and is part of McLaren´s Young Driver test programme.