This proposal of driver change was decided long back. What Red Bull wants to do is give both drivers a fair evaluation of their capabilities in the race weekend pressure cooker environment.
Klien has already a season under his belt and so was familiar with all the tracks so far. Liuzzi has only got experience in the tracks where the F3000 runs.
Therefore, Christian Horner decided to let Liuzzi show his stuff in the next three races where he already has some race experience. Thus a fairer comparison of the two would be possible. Following these three races, I am not sure who gets to drive in the second seat.
But if Liuzzi also performs well and so does Klien, Mr. Coulthard may be on the way out next season.
No word yet on Villeneuve's seat - whether it could go to one of these two.
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wait, but why is it called San Marino gp? it's a separate country. And Imola is in Italy.
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Its just a ruse for Italy to have 2 GPs. Similarly Germany has 2 GPs - European GP and German GP under the same mechanism