Stefano Coletti to remain in GP2 after Racing Engineering switch

The Monegasque driver won three races in 2013 and led the championship for the majority of the campaign, but endured a torrid second half of the season during which he failed to score a point and tumbled to fifth in the standings.

Coletti, who switches from Rapax after being beaten to the title by Racing Engineering's Fabio Leimer, will partner Ferrari protege and European Formula 3 champion Raffaele Marciello.

"I am really happy and looking forward to working with Racing Engineering this year," he said. "During recent years, they have proven to be a very serious and competitive team. I hope this year will bring us a lot of success."

Team president Alfonso de Orleans-Borbon believes mixing an experienced GP2 racer with a category rookie will serve the team well.

"What we saw [in Coletti] was a very fast and determined driver, who knows how to fight on track and take race wins," he said.

"With Stefano and Lello we have a driver pairing one can only dream of and we are all really looking forward to the start of the season."

2014 GP2 line-up so far:

Russian Time    	Mitch Evans     	Artem Markelov
Carlin          	Julian Leal             Felipe Nasr
Racing Engineering      Raffaele Marciello      Stefano Coletti
DAMS            	Jolyon Palmer   	Stephane Richelmi
ART             	Stoffel Vandoorne       Takuya Izawa
Hilmer          	Daniel Abt      	Facu Regalia
Rapax           	Simon Trummer           Adrian Quaife-Hobbs
Arden           	Rene Binder     	Andre Negrao
Caterham        	Alexander Rossi 	Rio Haryanto
MP              	Daniel de Jong
Trident                 Johnny Cecotto Jr
Lazarus                 Nathanael Berthon
Campos          	Arthur Pic              Kimiya Sato