 Karthikeyan Looking Forward to Jaguar Test Saturday December 30th, 2000 Narain Karthikeyan, aiming to become the first Indian to drive a Formula One car, said on Saturday he expected to test for Jaguar next month and was still hoping to break into Grands Prix in 2002. "It should be in the second or third week of January," Karthikeyan told Reuters from the southern city of Coimbatore. The test is likely to be in Spain. The 24-year-old, who finished fourth in British Formula Three with the Stewart team last season, has a contractual right to a test with Jaguar. An outing was first scheduled at Silverstone in Britain earlier this month but that had to be called off. "I have to be at the right place at the right time," Karthikeyan said. "Hopefully in 2002, I should drive Formula One full time." He said his target was to secure one of the few remaining positions as a Formula One test driver next season. "If that doesn't happen, I would race in Japan's Formula Nippon circuit and try to make it from there," he said. South African Tomas Scheckter, Karthikeyan's 20-year-old teammate at the Stewart team in 2000, has already secured the job of Formula One test driver at Jaguar next season. With the new season starting in March and a month of official testing behind them already, all the top teams have test drivers in place for the new season.
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