Watch live coverage of the Haas F1 Team's driver announcement from its base in North Carolina.

The new US-based team is announcing the first of its 2016 drivers at 1100 local time (1600 BST), with Romain Grosjean's switch from Lotus set to be confirmed by team owner Gene Haas and team principal Guenther Steiner. You can watch the press conference live from the team's headquarters below:

Haas is expected to partner Grosjean with Esteban Gutierrez, with the Mexican driver likely to be announced around the back-to-back races in Austin and Mexico City at the end of October.

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Andrew Lewin

Andrew first became a fan of Formula 1 during the time when Michael Schumacher and Damon Hill were stepping into the limelight after the era of Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell and Aryton Senna. He's been addicted ever since, and has been writing about the sport now for nearly a quarter of a century for a number of online news sites. He's also written professionally about GP2 (now Formula 2), GP3, IndyCar, World Rally Championship, MotoGP and NASCAR. In his other professional life, Andrew is a freelance writer, social media consultant, web developer/programmer, and digital specialist in the fields of accessibility, usability, IA, online communities and public sector procurement. He worked for many years in magazine production at Bauer Media, and for over a decade he was part of the digital media team at the UK government's communications department. Born and raised in Essex, Andrew currently lives and works in south-west London.

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