Category: Formula 1

How about teams get 6 days for testing if your budget is over a certain amount and 8 days if it is below? Or better yet, if your team finished in the top half of the constructors last year you get 6 and 8 for the bottom half. This will help being the field closer together. Six days for everyone is ludicrous

The teams should have at least 10 days of testing. The idea of the new rule change, that decreased the number of testing days to only 6, was to reduce costs and time big teams have for setting up and understanding their car. By doing that, the FIA only hindered smaller teams and their ability to find and solve eventual aero or mechanical deficiencies which led to bigger gaps between teams.

Even less room for development, which will translate to more dominance from one team. Dont ask yourselves why we only had three champions in two different teams in the 2010s after the in-season testing bans that took place late last decade. I suspect it wont be any better for next year when they're capped on spending. You might have even heavier dominance from the team that starts off best after the rule changes than you did with Mercedes and Red Bull before them.

Renting a track for testing is perhaps the cheapest per diem expense in F1. I don’t understand the logic of reducing testing days, it’s certainly not to save money. Just screws the smaller teams and enhances disparity.

They have to put 25% more potential and effort to try to understand the performance of their car and to collect accurate data...Which will definitely make them re schedule their time sheets, and it’s literally a bit of pressure though 🙃😕..Just a thought

If they want to bring teams closer in line budget wise how about get rid of excessive amount of wind tunnel time teams like Merc get. Limiting track test time is purely stupid.

It's a joke. Open up testing with a limited pool of components to cap cost. If the teams make them last then let them test for as long as they need.

Good if it gives us an extra race weekend 👍🏼

Why limit testing days at all? Makes no sense....You would think that F1 and the FIA would want the best possible product in the race.

The FIA is clearly ran by freaking idiots. They should be able to TEST the cars without garbage limitations. The money being spent already its insane to go this route. Bring back spare cars too. So many great races ruined in turn one because spare cars are banned. Utter stupidity.

The best car the best pilot

Ask Claire Williams, she's got experience with it.

Just six days... 😩 Bullshit if you ask me..

Ban it completely and free practice too. Run what ya brung.🤪

Maybe we can see that on F1 TV Pro with a 25% discount to find that out?

More of sandbagging sessions as less days, and plz...No more crashes🤣

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Rubbish

ouch

BINOTTO VAI A CASAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Less sandbags they can fit onto cars

Cheer up, Stoffel! He looks pretty sad there...!

Might help him get back into F1 again although I don't think he will be the first option for Mercedes should one of their drivers leave.

Yeah, he gets to clean the cars with Ocons second hand chamois!😂🤣😂🤣

That was what was agreed 2 years ago. Ocon was reserve driver last year, with the guarantee that he would get a seat in 2020 with a Mercedes powered team. Vandoorne got a contract to be Formula E driver for Mercedes and do sim work for the F1 team in 2019. In 2020 he could become reserve driver, if he performed well.

Formula E, very different category. But if potential was seen in it, good luck boy

Average driver, but with a average driver becomes Mercedes also WC

To many good young drivers about atm,and with only 20 seats to fill,it’s a jungle out there,your going to have to be very quick,or very lucky,take lance stroll,if it wasn’t for his dad,he’d out of it by now, and that’s not being mean,it’s facts

He certainly deserves a second chance in the category .. he was completely neglected at McLaren, Alonso himself said the team favored him.

He was so underestimated and in the worst period in McLaren i gotta say i am happy to see him part of F1 again even though i think he is doing very good in Formula E at the moment would love to see him in an F1 car again

Glad he’s back, even better news that it’s with Mercedes 👌🏻

Getting paid for the year to work with the greatest Formula 1 operation ever, studying quite possibly the greatest driver ever. Very nice work if you can get it. 👌

Tbh, he deserves a new shot in f1 ...being matched against alonso as a rookie is never a good thing, in my opinion he can handle midfield f1 easily with a “ decent car”

Nice, he is back where he belongs. But it would be difficult though to find a way to become an official driver again. Unless, Williams would have an available seat for him next season. 👍

Happy for Stoffel !

Good news for him, and for F1.

Remember, the same happened to Kvyat in 2018, for Ferrari, he seems a lot better now.

Happy for him

Patients is key here, the guy is still young and has the world ahead. Look what happened to Ocon from Reserve to Renault first team.

He crashed out in his last Formula E outing in Mexico 🇲🇽... Is that a good idea ❓

it sounds cool but how much driving in a real car will he actually get or do reserve drivers actually get? I know if I wasn't driving I don't know if I like being in a race team.

Doubt he will drive the car much, if at all

He drives for Merc in formula e so makes sense

Aber nur in der Formel e Metschbox Rennen😅😅😅😅👎🤮

J'ai rarement vu une aussi grosse chèvre que lui a part Stroll et Magnussen bien sûr donc pq le prendre en 3eme pilote

Only a pity that being a reserve driver is a non active position...