Sebastien Buemi will also be Toro Rosso’s official reserve driver in 2012.<\/p>\n
On Thursday, energy drink Red Bull’s main team Red Bull Racing announced that the 23-year-old Swiss “joins Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber” in the world championship-winning team’s lineup this year.<\/p>\n
No mention was made of Toro Rosso, Red Bull’s Faenza based rookie team for which Buemi has raced since debuting in formula one in 2009.<\/p>\n
But Toro Rosso has clarified that Buemi will also step in should his race successors Jean-Eric Vergne and Daniel Ricciardo be unfit for action at any of the 20 grands prix this year.<\/p>\n
“Although our sister team in Milton Keynes will be the Swiss driver’s top priority, if for any reason, Scuderia Toro Rosso found itself short of a driver at a grand prix, then Sebastien would step into the cockpit for us,” said the team.<\/p>\n
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