Anyone who is in the Enzo and Dino Ferrari racetrack area will have noticed a great movement yesterday. Indeed the British F1 team, McLaren announced two days of testing in preparation for the Emilian race weekend.
Who runs?
From the rumors that arrived before the team's confirmation, an attempt was made to understand who could take part in these tests, in fact the two official drivers of the team, Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri, are returning in these days from a very demanding race like that one. from Australia and from a country that has a nine-hour time difference with Italy. However, the circle was shrinking, the third driver Palou is busy with the Indycar championship, as well as a name already heard in McLaren Pago O'Ward equally engaged in the category. Drivers of lower formulas? Unfortunately not, F2 and F3 are also back from the weekend of Melbourne.
With the confirmation of the tests, also came the confirmation of the two riders, who will rightly be: Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri.
McLaren in the points
McLaren returns from a positive weekend, the first of the season in which it manages to bring home points, going from last to fifth force in the world championship. Leap also due to the crazy race held at Albert Park last Sunday. With 8 riders stopped before the checkered flag, it would have been almost impossible not to finish in the points.
Norris sixth and Piastri eighth.
Why tests?
F1 is an evolving world and each grand prix brings with it a ton of useful data for the teams who continue to evolve the car even from one weekend to the next. The Woking team started the season, as mentioned before, in a disastrous way, and still has a lot to analyze and improve on the new MCL60.
However, be aware that the tests cannot be carried out with the 2023 car, in fact, by regulation, the project from two years ago, the MCL35M, will be used.
To the more inexperienced it might seem useless to carry out tests with an old car, but in a sport like this where training is closely linked to the two pre-race days, unlike others where training is constant and many hours a day , getting on the track is of great benefit to the riders and it will certainly be invaluable also for those who have an eye for gathering useful information to exploit on the track.
