What the former driver said
A full month without F1. This is the forced epilogue of the geopolitical situation in the Middle East that made it impossible to race in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, namely the two GPs scheduled for the month of April (the material used in the tests is still at Sakhir and no one has even hypothesized for now if and how to recover it).
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According to Riccardo Patrese, a solution to profitably exploit this far from ideal situation would be to organize an open-door collective test in Barcelona to allow teams to work not only on the simulator on the development of the 2026 cars: “I believe that the FIA should give the teams the opportunity to carry out more tests, perhaps in Barcelona – said Patrese reached by Grosvenor Casino – the teams must be allowed to go on track, because simulators are okay, but if you need to test something important especially regarding the engines, you have to go on track.”
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“This break can help the teams most in difficulty to catch up – added Patrese – I hope that from May we will see a better F1, especially one in which the drivers can always use the throttle.”
