Friday, 21 January 2011

How to improve Formula 1 testing for 2012 for Young drivers (just an idea)

I'm doing something different this week. Note this is an idea I have thought of it from the past week. This is because when looking at footage from the Autosport International Show from people such as Martin Brundle talked about Formula 1 needs testing to improve for young drivers (Youtube clip below, mid way through).


So here's my idea:

Not this season a head but maybe for 2012 season. My own concept on how to improve testing, but mainly for testing for young drivers or hasn't driven for over last three years.
  • Move testing dates in general from mid January to the end of February. Instead of having four weeks in February (15 days of testing) before a season now, you can have six weeks (23 days of testing).
  • Before every Grand Prix (minus back to back grand prix and Monaco grand prix as-well) on the Thursday there should be a new two hour practice session for young drivers who haven't been in a grand prix race before such as Ferrari test driver Julies Bianchi (who can go into this practice session, still be driving in GP2 still), rookie drivers such as last season for example Vitaly Petrov and Drivers who ain't race a grand prix for three seasons such as last season for example Pedro de la Rosa can go into this as-well (note only for the first four races of the season for driver like Pedro de la Rosa, or over seven Grand Prix's for a rookie driver). This may also help with teams with limited budgets as-well such as Virgin and HRT for example.
  • But you still keep in-season testing ban throughout the season (such as going to Mugello and test in-between two weeks until another Grand Prix).
  • Then at the end of the season testing go to place like Abu Dhabi or Barcalona to do a week of testing (or two weeks) for young drivers test as-well.
I don't know if my idea is good one or a bad idea, just my opinion at the end of the day. This might improve testing in general. That's all, bye.

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