Lotus-Renault has announced Kimi Raikkonen as their driver for Formula One (F1) 2012. The arrival of Kimi made ​​the existence of Vitaly Petrov threatened. Renault is rumored to soon discuss his future.

Petrov has a contract with Renault, which will change its name to Lotus, F1 race until 2012. However, the manager says Oksana Kossatchenko this situation is not necessarily safe.

"I will meet in tomorrow morning (local time) to decide what we will do. Whether we decide to stay or not. We will discuss it," said Kossatchenko.

"I think we'll find the solution and then we still have a few days to discuss it. We want to know the plans of this team, before we made sure his presence on this team," he continued.

Renault is already sure Kimi will strengthen them for two years. Even so, the French manufacturer has not clarify who will be his teammate Kimi.

There are several candidates. They are Romain Grosjean, who became the strongest candidate to accompany Kimi. There is also Bruno Senna, who races as much as eight times and of Nick Heidfeld.

"I want to stick with what we've achieved already. So, the best option is to retain Petrov likely to appear in the race next year," said the woman, as reported by Reuters on Thursday (1/12/2011).

Petrov does not look too bad at the event last year. Bulgaria's racer managed to finish fifth in the final standings ranked racers. Petrov collected 73 points in the race season lali.