A day and a half late, Ferrari finally launched the test session scheduled for this week on the circuit of Fiorano. This first run of the year was originally supposed to start yesterday but, as we told you, a confusion around sporting regulations thwarted his plans. Initially, there was talk of using last season’s SF21, but no official text seems to authorize it for the moment and Ferrari preferred to fall back on another solution pending clarification from the FIA.
It was therefore necessary to prepare the SF71H for the 2018 season to allow the pilots to gain some track time, the latter being shortened given this change of program. The single-seater only took to the track this Wednesday followingnoon, decked out in number 29 and in the hands of Robert Shwartzman, a member of the Ferrari Driver Academy.
Thursday, the test day will be shared between the two starters, Carlos Sainz in the morning and Charles Leclerc in the followingnoon, when the two men were initially supposed to have a full day each to work with the engineers and perfect the procedures. The schedule is therefore compact, since the last day, Friday, will be entirely devoted to Robert Shwartzman, who will be back in the red single-seater.
This is not a first for the Russian driver, who made his first laps aboard this same car just a year ago, already at Fiorano in the context of a similar test session as had organized Ferrari.
