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Da Costa ‘very close' to F1 debut

By Editor on Friday, May 3, 2013 The latest cream of Red Bull's junior driver programme insists he is ready to step up to Formula One. With Mark Webber's contract at Red Bull Racing set to expire, it is now strongly rumoured that fellow Australian Daniel Ricciardo is in pole position to replace him. That would leave a vacancy at Red Bull's second F1 team, Toro Rosso. The obvious favourite for that seat is Antonio Felix da Costa, a 21-year-old from Portugal. Currently a frontrunner in the Formula Renault 3.5 series, da Costa has already been drafted into Red Bull's F1 programme, replacing Sebastien Buemi as reserve driver in China while the Swiss was racing sports cars in the UK. And it...
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