» FIA reveals five teams are still to confirm drivers

The FIA’s provisional entry list for next year’s Formula 1 season has revealed that five of the field’s twelve teams are still to officially finalise their driver line-ups.

The provisional entry list – which also confirms the new names that Renault, Team Lotus and Virgin Racing will be known by – confirms that there are still apparent full vacancies at Force India, Toro Rosso, Williams and HRT (despite it have signed Pedro de la Rosa to one seat), as well as a part-vacancy at Lotus F1 Team (nee Renault).

Also missing from the HRT entry list is confirmation of its chassis name and engine supplier, which is generally believed to be Cosworth, although rumours of a Toyota tie-in have resurfaced once again.

Team Caterham (formerly Team Lotus) has listed both Heikki Kovalainen and Jarno Trulli as its drivers, theoretically putting to bed suggestions that Trulli’s new contract did not actually stipulate he’d be racing in 2012.

Kimi Räikkönen has also been given the #9 in the Lotus F1 Team line-up, while Jenson Button gets Lewis Hamilton’s #3 entry next year, by dint of having finished ahead of Hamilton in the Drivers’ Championship standings this year.

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2012 FIA Formula 1 World Championship Season – Provisional Entry List:

	Driver	Nat	Entry	Nat	Chassis	Engine
1.	Sebastian Vettel		Red Bull Racing		Red Bull	Renault
2.	Mark Webber		Red Bull Racing		Red Bull	Renault

3.	Jenson Button		Vodafone McLaren Mercedes		McLaren	Mercedes
4.	Lewis Hamilton		Vodafone McLaren Mercedes		McLaren	Mercedes

5.	Fernando Alonso		Scuderia Ferrari		Ferrari	Ferrari
6.	Felipe Massa		Scuderia Ferrari		Ferrari	Ferrari

7.	Michael Schumacher		Mercedes GP Petronas F1 Team		Mercedes	Mercedes
8.	Nico Rosberg		Mercedes GP Petronas F1 Team		Mercedes	Mercedes

9.	Kimi Räikkönen		Lotus F1 Team		Lotus	Renault
10.	TBA		Lotus F1 Team		Lotus	Renault

11.	TBA		Sahara Force India F1 Team		Force India	Mercedes
12.	TBA		Sahara Force India F1 Team		Force India	Mercedes

14.	Kamui Kobayashi		Sauber F1 Team		Sauber	Ferrari
15.	Sergio Pérez Mendoza		Sauber F1 Team		Sauber	Ferrari

16.	TBA		Scuderia Toro Rosso		Toro Rosso	Ferrari
17.	TBA		Scuderia Toro Rosso		Toro Rosso	Ferrari

18.	TBA		AT&T Williams		Williams	Renault
19.	TBA		AT&T Williams		Williams	Renault

20.	Heikki Kovalainen		Team Caterham		Caterham	Renault
21.	Jarno Trulli		Team Caterham		Caterham	Renault

22.	TBA		HRT F1 Team		TBA	TBA
23.	TBA		HRT F1 Team		TBA	TBA

24.	Timo Glock		Marussia F1 Team		Marussia	Cosworth
25.	Charles Pic		Marussia F1 Team		Marussia	Cosworth