Fernando Alonso hits out at ‘unfair’ F1 pre-season testing limits
Fernando Alonso has branded F1 pre-season testing limits "unfa🌃🅺ir".
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fernando Alonso has criticised the current pre-season testing format, saying it is “unfair” on F1 drivers.
Pre-season testing gets underway in Bahrain on Wednesday, the first of three days ꦆof running before the 202🐟4 campaign gets underway on March 2.
Having previously been carried out across two four-day tests, the pre-season testing format has been slimmed down in recent 💎years.
Now a single three-day test in Bahrain, drivers get roughly one and a half days of running in their new 🐭cars, with teams only able to field one car p🦂er day.
Alonso feels the current system does not giv🧸e drivers enough time to prepare for th🔥e new season and should be changed.
The two-timeඣ world champion sees no reason why each team should not be allowed to run both of their cars and drivers simultaneously.
"We have very limited testing in Bahrain," Alonso ꧙said. "I've be🎐en thinking all winter about this, how unfair it is that we only have one day and a half to prepare a world championship.
"There is no other sport in ওthe world, with all the money involved and with all the marketing and the good things that we say about Formula 1 and being closer and closer to the fans, [where that happens].
"I cannot understand why we then go to Bahrain for four days, which could be tw🦂o and two f𒀰or the drivers. If you go to three, which is not even, which is an odd number, you cannot divide between the drivers.
"And I don't know why we don't go with two cars? Because we🎉 are already in Bahrain and we race the following week.”
Mercedes driver and GPDA director George Russell echoed Alon🌃so’s comments, saying last 🧸year: "Personally speaking, I don't think three days is enough, because you have got to remember from a driver's perspective, that is one and a half days per driver.
"Could you imagine Rafael Nadal spendi𒅌ng 12 weeks without hitting a ball and then going straight into the French Open with one and a h⛎alf days of training? It just wouldn't ever happen.
"I understand and recognise why we do tha🅠t. I think three days with two cars would probably be a good place to be."
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