News that 40-year-old Pedro de la Rosa will be making another F1 return with backmarker HRT raised a lot of eyebrows, but as Adam Cooper heard, the Spaniard is confident in his decision

Over the past couple of weeks we've had confirmation that Vitaly Petrov, Bruno Senna, Jaime Alguersuari, Sebastien Buemi and Adrian Sutil are on the Formula 1 job market, and are thus chasing the final two empty seats at Williams and HRT.

With such an array of talent on the sidelines, attention has turned to those who will be on the 2012 grid, and internet forums have been buzzing with suggestions that this or that driver doesn't deserve to have a spot.

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