ART is not expecting a free ticket onto the 2011 grid, even though the French team’s boss is the son of FIA president Jean Todt.<\/p>\n
Nicolas Todt, 32, responded to rumours his Burgundy-based outfit is favourite to win F1’s 13th place in formula one due to the family link to the ruling body.<\/p>\n
“My father is anything but stupid,” Todt said in the latest edition of France’s Auto Hebdo magazine.<\/p>\n
“For us, we need to do things even better than the best in order to not be open to criticism,” he added.<\/p>\n
“Our dossier needs to be better than any others, because I do not expect any gifts from the FIA, quite the contrary,” said Todt.<\/p>\n
ART already races in the formative F3 Euroseries, GP2 and GP3 categories.<\/p>\n
Todt manages not only Ferrari’s Felipe Massa, but also the French 20-year-old Jules Bianchi, who currently races for ART’s GP2 team and is a part of Ferrari’s driver development programme.<\/p>\n
As recently as this week, Bianchi was at the wheel of a 2008 Ferrari at Vallelunga.<\/p>\n
Nicolas Todt admitted he would like to see ART enter formula one as a French team with a French driver at the wheel.<\/p>\n
“That would be even more enjoyable,” he conceded.<\/p>\n
“And even better with French technical partners as well.\u00a0 France has an enormous reservoir of human talent and enterprise at a very high level.<\/p>\n
“There is certainly enough to show the English what we are capable of,” added Todt.<\/p>\n
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