Mumbai: India's Karun Chandhok will have a two-day test with the Red Bull Formula One team in Barcelona next week, the driver said in a statement on Tuesday.
Chandhok, who scored his first victory at Formula One's GP2 support series at Spa in Belgium earlier this year, is aiming to follow in the footsteps of Narain Karthikeyan, who became the first Indian to drive in F1 in 2005 when he raced for Jordan.
Karthikeyan is currently a test driver with Williams.
"It really is a dream come true for me," Chennai-born Chandhok said. Red Bull team boss Christian Horner said in the statement that Chandhok had shown steady improvement. "His progress in GP2 this year has been clearly evident, culminating in a win at Spa," said Horner.
"Barcelona presents a good opportunity to put Karun in one of the cars, as our regular test driver Sebastien Buemi will be competing in the Macau F3 race," he added.
There is surging interest in the sport in India after business tycoon Vijay Mallya's takeover of Spyker, which has been renamed Force India Formula One team. India is also due to host a Grand Prix in 2010.
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