Formula 1 closed its season last weekend at the Abu Dhabi GP. But actually, the blinds aren’t going down until this Tuesday. Today, at the Abu Dhabi Circuit, the teams have the last day of work on the track before the Christmas holidays and focus solely and exclusively on their work in their respective factories for 2024. This Tuesday, at the end of the season The tests are held at the Yas Marina Circuit, where 13 of the official drivers on the grid will be present on the asphalt.
In this post-season test in Abu Dhabi, the teams are using two cars with two different purposes. One of them is for young drivers to take a test, and that’s why this day is known as the ‘young drivers test’ in Abu Dhabi. Each team’s other car is scheduled to conduct a Pirelli tire test.
In this test there are 7 absences among all official drivers. Verstappen, Hamilton, Norris, Bottas, Gasly, Magnussen and Hülkenberg, who are no longer at the Yas Marina Circuit, are not racing.
Among the youth, we must highlight the appearance of the Argentine Williams Franco Colapinto on his debut driving an F1. Colapinto will share the day with Zak O’Sullivan. For his part, the Mexican Duck O’Ward He will drive the McLaren again. In Mercedes, the young man behind the wheel of the silver arrow is Frederik Vesti. At Ferrari, Robert Schwartzmanwho participated in Free Practice 1 this weekend. Felipe Drugovich doing it in Aston Martin, Jack Doohan in Alpine, Ayumu Iwasa with AlphaTauri and Oliver Bearman, with Haas, among other drivers.
Source: La Verdad
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