Scuderia Ferrari drivers Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz will get a very good alternative to regain the Method 1 driving feeling forward of the following championship, because the Maranello crew will take to its Fiorano observe for a three-day testing session through the use of a two-year-old F1 single-seater. The take a look at will happen in January earlier than the Italian aspect will formally launch its automotive for the 2023 Method 1 season in February.
As just lately reported by the Italian model of the Motorsport.com web site, Scuderia Ferrari will deliver out its SF21 automotive, which was used for the 2021 F1 championship to finish a three-day take a look at and there give Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz the prospect to every driver for a full day and permit them to get again on top of things following the lengthy winter break after the final season.
Charles and Carlos won’t be the one ones getting behind the wheel: Ferrari reserve drivers Robert Shwartzman and Antonio Giovinazzi, who just some days in the past was confirmed to signify the Italian aspect within the 2023 World Endurance Championship, will every drive the SF21 challenger for half a day.
This was Ferrari’s method additionally for the earlier 12 months, when the Maranello crew held a testing session on its non-public race observe earlier than the official presentation of its race-winning F1-75 automotive. Such a non-public testing session is essential not only for Charles and Carlos to shake off the rust but additionally for brand spanking new recruits – on this case new crew boss Frederic Vasseur, who has been appointed on the high of the Ferrari Racing Division, repalcing Mattia Binotto whose relationship with the senior administration had deteriorated following a season during which Ferrari was anticipated to at the least problem for the title, however fell far behind rivals Pink Bull regardless of having the quickest automotive on the grid within the begin of the 2022 F1 championship. Fred Vasseur will due to this fact get a primary likelihood to familiarise himself with the Maranello crew’s methods of working and establish the most effective resolution for enhancing operational procedures, with the purpose of avoiding a number of the errors seen in 2022.
Different groups will after all additionally benefit from related working time: Mercedes, Aston Martin and AlphaTauri will all be concerned in a testing session for official tyre provider Pirelli and shall be allowed to make use of their automotive from the earlier season, to assist the Italian producer proceed the event of its new technology of tyres.
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The 2023 Method 1 marketing campaign, which kicks off on March 5 with the Bahrain Grand Prix, will mark 15 years since Scuderia Ferrari’s most up-to-date World Championship triumph: the Maranello crew received the Constructors’ title again in 2008, due to Felipe Massa and Kimi Raikkonen and shall be hoping to place an finish to the lengthy wait in 2023.
Jan 13, 2023
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