Alpha Tauri he wants a newcomer Yuki Tsunodo as best prepared as possible for its premiere season in Formulas 1 and because of this they plan five test days in the race car of the season 2018before heading out for official winter testing in Bahrain. This Tsunode test is supposed to be performed in Imoli.
According to colleagues from Motorsport-Total.com, the crew Alpha Tauri plans two separate tests in Imoli. The first two days are supposed to be young Japanese completed as early as next week January 27 and 28, where Tsunoda will be sitting in a 2018 race car. Also his teammate Pierre Gasly could take a few laps to warm up again after the winter break. The second part of testing, which will last for three days, will be on the agenda between 23 and 25 February. And then you could for needs recording day also used new race car, but this has not yet been confirmed. These intense preparations for the new season are to be attributed actionthat winter testing has been moved to Bahrain and that for cost reasons they will only last this year three days.
Rules allows each team two filming days with the current race car. However, this test is limited to the maximum 100 kilometersand the car must be shod in special tires. It's already last year Alpha Tauri with Tsunodo tested v Imoli, where the young Japanese took more than 350 kilometers. On top of that, on the test of young racers v Abu Dhabi sitting in a race car AT01. This year, however, he could be a youngster Red Bull Racing new race car AlphaTauria tested before the start of official testing. And another point of interest in the view new car. The team from Faenza she decided against thisto take over the entire rear end of last year’s race car Red Bulland RB16, which could be done according to the policy.