Simona de Silvestro To Partner Tony Kanaan At KV Racing For 2013

It has been announced that Swiss driver Simona de Silvestro will join Brazilian driver Tony Kanaan at KV Racing Technology for the 2013 IZOD IndyCar Series, a move which will see her move away from the Lotus-powered HVM outfit. This will be the first time in her IZOD IndyCar career that she has been partnered by a team-mate.

After enduring a frustrating 2012 season, becoming the only driver to partake in the whole season using the disastrously uncompetitive Lotus engines, Simona de Silvestro will move to KV Racing Technology, partnering former Series Champion Tony Kanaan and ending her three-year stint as a HVM driver. The 24-year-old Swiss driver will get her first taste in the KV Racing Technology outfit next week, during a test at Barber.

It was initially thought that the HVM outfit were going to work together next season with KV Racing Technology, however these speculations seem to have died out and it is now believed that Simona de Silvestro will have no further involvement with the team which brought her into the IZOD IndyCar Series back in 2010. During the 2012 season, de Silvestro could only manage 13th at best at Detroit, in a season which included eight retirements (four of them mechanical related).

However, this move to KV Racing Technology should see an improvement in her form, especially with the outfit sporting Chevrolet engines. Simona’s best career result was 4th back in 2011 at St. Petersburg, a stat she will unquestionably be hoping to match or possibly even beat next season with a team which finished consistently in the top ten throughout the majority of last season.

Check out my previous interview with Simona de Silvestro, as we look back on her 2012 season.

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