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Bottas to open Williams testing at Jerez

Williams has announced its driver programme for the first pre-season test at Jerez, with Valtteri Bottas first to drive the FW37.

The team released a rendering of the FW37 last week, and will run the car for the first time in public in Jerez, with the first test of 2015 starting on Sunday. Williams has opted to give both of its drivers consecutive days in the car rather than alternating them, with Bottas opening the test on the first two days before team-mate Felipe Massa takes over for days three and four.

Susie Wolff has been promoted to test driver and will spend time in the car at the second test in Barcelona, while the team is currently without a reserve driver after Felipe Nasr was handed a race seat at Sauber.

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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.