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Nico Mueller remains confident he is set for a second season in Formula E despite still remaining officially unconfirmed at Dragon Penske Autosport.
Mueller took part in all three days of the pre-season test at Valencia this week and ended it with third-fastest time.
But while Sergio Sette Camara has been announced as staying on with the team for the 2021 season, there is no official word on Mueller’s situation.
The Race understands that the in-depth negotiations are likely to go on right up until the official FIA entry deadline next Monday.
The full entry list is set to be communicated by the FIA on December 11.
Factory Audi-contracted driver Mueller believes he will be conducting a second season with Dragon and will be on the grid in Santiago next month.
“I think it’s just a choice of the team to wait with confirmation and making sure they can sort out some more details,” said Mueller.
“I’m feeling good, hungry and very well-prepared for another season in Formula E and I feel like I have unfinished business here.
“I definitely want to do it if the circumstances allow, and that we will find out soon, I guess.”
DPA has not tested any other driver since the end of the 2019/20 season in the summer, and Mueller has completed the majority of running, including a multi-day private test at the Calafat circuit in Spain last month.
The team is largely the same from a personnel standpoint this season but it has drafted in Gary Davies in a chief engineering capacity head to work alongside chief technical officer Nicolas Mauduit.
Davies previously held roles at BAR in Formula 1, Arden Motorsport and Porsche North America.
Mueller believes that the continuity, combined with new hires, will give the team a strong basis to improve on its disappointing 2019/20 season when it mustered just two points.
“The team is working very well together and let’s say there’s good consistency but also a few new faces, so it is also good be starting from a base that everybody knows,” he said.
“I am pretty happy with how the team has been working at the test and how we’ve approached it, without really looking at the performance because really it is hard to judge the relevancy of that. But overall it has been productive.”
