All Components 1 groups are supporting a plan to rearrange a post-season race for rookie drivers in Abu Dhabi, says Mercedes workforce principal Toto Wolff.
The intention behind the proposal is to provide junior drivers extra alternatives to display their potential. Wolff stated it might not be possible to carry such a race earlier within the season as a result of any accident harm incurred may have an effect on the world championship.
“We mentioned it within the F1 Fee and I feel we’re eager in giving rookie drivers extra alternative,” he stated.
“The stretch is that in case you give it to them on a grand prix race weekend, it’s going to impression the principle drivers, or it may impression the principle drivers’ performances. If you happen to allow them to race on a foremost weekend, it may affect the race consequence, which could possibly be fairly damaging in case you’re combating for a championship.
“We didn’t discover one other means of letting them undergo this entire sequence of a race weekend, pushing within the automobile, with the ability to make comparisons. With a day of racing in Abu Dhabi, they’re all going to be on the identical gasoline [loads], they’re all going to be on the identical tyre and will probably be fascinating to see how they examine in these respective vehicles. And the season is completed.”
He identified including an additional race to the 30 held throughout a season – together with dash occasions – will put but extra demand on groups’ workers.
“It’s going to be a pressure for the workforce, clearly, as a result of we now have one other day [of running],” he stated. “However we’re within the leisure trade and that’s one of the best thought to this point that we now have come as much as give them extra driving time.”
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Every workforce has one vote on the F1 Fee, whereas FOM and the FIA have 10 votes every. Wolff stated “there was nobody within the room that didn’t assist the thought as a result of we now have all the identical targets.
“We need to give them extra publicity, we need to give them operating time and that’s the place we landed.”
Since 2022, F1 groups have been required to run drivers who’ve began fewer than three Components 1 races in a minimum of two observe classes per 12 months. Ferrari workforce principal Frederic Vasseur sees little scope to develop that programme.
“We had been considering to provide them the chance to do extra [first practice sessions], however they’re doing already 14 [rounds] in F2. On the highest of this, we now have the dash races the place you may’t give [up] the FP1.
“Plus at some tracks, it’s not straightforward. We’ll by no means quit FP1 in Singapore or Monaco or Baku. It signifies that on the finish of the day, we don’t have so many alternatives to provide them the chance to check the automobile in the actual situation and out of doors of the [testing of previous cars] system.
“I feel this chance could possibly be a superb one to additionally give them the total weekend with a free observe, quali and begin. For certain it’s not straightforward to organise and so forth, however I’m supportive.”
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