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Toro Rosso invites Buemi for another test

Formula 1 teams will travel to Barcelona next week for a three-day test session at Circuit de Catalunya. It is the first week of testing for the teams in the winter season and a number of teams are testing new drivers. One of them will be Scuderia Toro Rosso who confirmed they will not only have Takuma Sato behind the wheel but also Sebastien Buemi, Red Bull Racing's 2008 test driver.

A Toro Rosso spokesperson confirmed to GPUpdate: "Both Takuma Sato and Sebastien Beumi will be testing at Circuit de Catalunya with us next week."

Both Sato and Buemi are high on Toro Rosso's list to become the team's driver next season.

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