News Details

Hakkinen: Lack of testing days unimaginable 20 years ago

Article To news overview © @f1mikahakkinen Mika Hakkinen believes the current lack of testing creates a huge amount of pressure for teams, who have to figure out how best to unlock their cars performance over the course of a Grand Prix weekend. 2021 had just three days of pre-season testing, a significant reduction from the eight days of just two seasons ago. This lack of testing was due to COVID travel restrictions making life difficult for the teams, as well as the cars being broadly the same as last year's. Mika Hakkinen has said the situation would have been unthinkable during his time in Formula 1, when testing was almost completely unlimited if a team had the budget. "Honestly,...
Full Story »
Share

You May Also Be Interested In...

‘Huge Talent’ Sebastian Vettel Will Be ‘Fine’...

Sebastian Vettel can still have a strong debut season with Aston Martin...
4y ago from Formula1News.co.uk

Video: Huge NASCAR pile-up at Martinsville

Video To news overview Martinsville Speedway is one of the shortest race...
4y ago from RacingNews365.com

Mercedes Warn They Haven’t ‘Delivered...

Mercedes are still yet to extract all of the available performance from...
5y ago from Formula1News.co.uk

Verstappen jokes about 'unique signature': 'It's not...

Formula1.com went to all the drivers with the most unusual questions....
5y ago from GPBlog.com

Elsewhere On The Network

Popular On MGPToday.com

Why WorldSBK leader Nicolo Bulega could miss out on a...

Rumours surrounding Nicolo Bulega and a possible move to MotoGP in 2027...

Popular On IndyCarToday.com

Popular On TotalWRC.com

Hyundai continues to honour Craig Breen's memory

Hyundai Shell Mobis World Rally Team will run a special livery at this...
23h ago from MotorsportWeek.c...

Popular On GunnersToday.com

‘I’m not being negative' – Arsenal...

Mikel Arteta may have breathed a sigh of relief following Arsenal’s...
2h ago from CaughtOffside.com

'He's saved us so many ties' - Kai Havertz hails...

Kai Havertz heaped praise on Arsenal teammate David Raya following the...
1h ago from SportsKeeda.com

Sources: Arsenal exploring two centre-back transfers,...

Arsenal are stepping up their interest in strengthening in defence this...
1h ago from CaughtOffside.com

Arsenal attacker could be sacrificed in the summer to...

According to Football Insider, Arsenal could consider the surprise sale of...
1h ago from CaughtOffside.com

Comments

Hottest News

Recent News


2014 GPToday.com
GPToday.com is not responsible for the news headlines and associated descriptions and images it indexes, the content of externally linked sites or the comments & postings of its users.

This website is unofficial and is not associated in any way with the Formula One group of companies. F1, FORMULA ONE, FORMULA 1, FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, GRAND PRIX and related marks are trade marks of Formula One Licensing B.V.