By regulation this year, as repeated several times, each team must run an unofficial driver in at least two free practice sessions throughout the season. Between the top three teams, i.e Ferrari, Red Bull and Mercedes, the only team to have put one of its talents on the track is la german house which allowed Nick DeVries to do some laps with the W13 in France, al Paul Ricard. Now it's the turn of Red Bull and Ferraris that they still have available 7 weekend to give space to their talents and the first to communicate when this will happen is la red of Maranello.
Shwartzman will do FP1 in Austin and Abu Dhabi
In the F2 season he saw Oscar Piastri win the World Cup there was another driver who has all the skills for deserve a seat in F1: Robert Schwartzman. In fact, the Australian's main opponent was precisely the Russian from Prema who came close to the title. 2022 was for him a sabbatical year being the third Ferrari driver, but according to what was said by the engineers of the Maranello team, Robert would be giving a big hand to the Headquarters thanks to many hours in the simulator and tests done in the Fiorano circuit, which also served him for take the hand.
Now Russian is ready for take to the track in an official session and he won't do it with a random car, but just by driving it F1-75, probably (subject to reliability issues and strategic errors) the best car of all. The weekends established for the young talent of the Ferrari Driver Academy to make his debut in the top category of Motorsport will be those of Austin and Abu Dhabi.
Israeli flag for legal purposes
According to the FIA, the Russian athletes they cannot display their flag because of the war in Ukraine that has been going on for months now. Shwartzman, in fact, will run under Israeli flag he being born in Tel Aviv and having lived there until he had 3 years. Also the father's family is all Israeli and, therefore, has all the requirements to be able to compete for this nation.
ARTICLE BY FRANCESCO ORLANDO
