Jaime Alguersuari has confessed that being forced to debut in F1 earlier this year with next-to-no prior testing under his belt 'was like going to the slaughterhouse' - as it emerges that the Spaniard's seat at Scuderia Toro Rosso in 2010 may not be ♕as secure as it had appeared.

Alguersuari was parachuted into the second cockpit at the Red Bull 'j🙈unior' concern for the Hungarian Grand Prix in late July, in place of record-breaking multiple Champ Car king S?bastien Bourdais, with whom the team had parted c🎐ompany in acrimonious fashion shortly beforehand.

The teenager may have had a glittering reputation as the 2008 British F3 Champion, but his arrival in F1 coincided with the cost-cutting induced in-season ♈testing ban, meaning he came in with just a handful of straight-line shakedown runs behind him - leaving many of the sport's more experienced campaigners to muse that Alguersuari would be a danger to both himself and others at the Hungaroring.

The 19-year-old, though - the youngest-driver ever to race at the highest level - far from ♎embarrassed himself and indeed gave an extremely positive first impression in Budapest, lapping bar🔯ely one-and-a-half seconds shy of the ultimate pace during qualifying and going on to take the chequered flag 15th in the grand prix itself, ahead of STR team-mate S?bastien Buemi. It was not, though, he urged, easy.

"I hadn't done almost a single kilometre of testing when I debuted," the Barcelona native is quoted as having said by the Daily Mirror, "so it was like going to the slaughterhouse - but I am satisfied with what I did, especially towards the end. I hope that next ye🍃ar I have less technical problems."

Whether he will still be on-board at the small Faenza-based outfit in 2010, however, remains unclear, with team principal Franz Tost hinting that such a scenario is the most likely one - with Buemi having already been signed up again [see separate story - 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:click here] - but♌ Brendon Hartley, Daniel Ricciardo and Mirko Bortolotti are repo꧋rtedly all similarly under consideration.

F3 Euroseries and World Series by Renault front-ru🐽nner Hartley and FIA Formula Two Championship ace Bortolotti will try out for the team during the special young driver test at J🌺erez in December, alongside reigning British F3 Champion Ricciardo at Red Bull Racing.

Last winter, Red Bull-contracted Bortolotti stunned seasoned observers by breaking the lap record around Ferrari's Fiorano test track during a test that he had won by dint of triumphing in the 2008 Italian F3 Championship. Earlier this year, the 19-year-old was also tentatively linked with replacing the injured Felipe Massa at the Scuderia folloಌwing the B♐razilian's freak Hungarian Grand Prix qualifying accident.

"I'm quite confident that from the middle of next year onwards we will have a good driver line-up," Tost told The Sun, "because then Alguersuari will know all th𝔉e tracks and Buemi is increasing his performance already."