Karun Chandhok expects to return to the formula one grid with HRT later in 2010.<\/p>\n
Ten races into his rookie season, the 26-year-old has been replaced for next weekend’s Hockenheim race by Japanese pay-driver Sakon Yamamoto.<\/p>\n
“I expect to be back for races later in the year,” Chandhok told the BBC.<\/p>\n
“At the moment we are talking only about Hockenheim but with four drivers and two cars, it is probably inevitable I will miss some more races.”<\/p>\n
The fourth HRT driver is Austrian tester Christian Klien.<\/p>\n
After Bruno Senna was replaced by Yamamoto at Silverstone, Chandhok admitted that it is “not great” to now be facing his own race weekend on the sidelines.<\/p>\n
But he insisted: “I came into this team looking to establish myself as a credible, respectable formula one driver and I’ve done that.”<\/p>\n
According to the Telegraph, Chandhok will still travel to Germany for round 11 of the world championship.<\/p>\n
“By no means does this mean that I’m not back in the car in Budapest,” he said.<\/p>\n
“We will sit down in Hockenheim and the team will decide on a race by race basis.<\/p>\n
“Then we have the summer break and we will see what happens.\u00a0 It is a little bit up in the air.<\/p>\n
“There’s no reason to believe that I will be out for too long.\u00a0 I’m not too worried.”<\/p>\n
Chandhok also insists he is not out of HRT’s reckoning for next season.<\/p>\n
“I have talked with (owner) Jose Ramon Carabante about their plans for 2011 today so it’s not like there’s been a total breakdown between us or anything.\u00a0 It’s just something they want to do now,” he explained.<\/p>\n
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