Charles Pic is working for a seat in 2012
Charles Pic is one of the four French drivers aiming for a spot in Formula One for the upcoming season and Olivier Panis has revealed, on TF1, that he is doing everything, with the Lagardère group, to achieve it.
Managed by the Lagardère Group and former Formula One driver Olivier Panis, Charles Pic was one of the three French drivers fighting for the GP2 Series championship title this season. Fourth in the final championship standings, the driver from Team Addax achieved 3 pole positions and secured two victories at the start of the season, in Barcelona and Monaco: “I discovered Charles, he has incredible talent, he has done things that really surprised me this year. He has real partners who have been following him for a long time and, today, being managed by the Lagardère Group, obviously, is a plus,” Olivier Panis confesses in the show “F1 à la Une”.
Interviewed by Denis Brongniart about the chances of seeing the Frenchman in Formula One next year, the winner of the 1996 Monaco Grand Prix assures: “We are doing everything for it. Believe me, we are working tremendously hard so that Charles is in a seat because he deserves it and he will surprise a lot of people.”
But the former Ligier, McLaren, BAR and Toyota driver also commented on the chances of other French drivers: [Romain Grosjean] is very very good and he deserves his place, of course, he won the championship. I believe that these four French drivers [editor’s note: Pic, Grosjean, Bianchi and Vergne] have talent, each one works in his own direction but, in any case, all we want is still a French driver.
