Austria and Spain to host in-season tests

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Two in-season tests will be held during the 2015 season according to Red Bull.

As last year, one will be held at the Circuit de Catalunya after the Spanish Grand Prix. The other will take place at the Red Bull Ring following the Austrian Grand Prix June.

It is a reduction in the number of tests held last year, when there were four in-season sessions.

The exact dates of the tests are yet to be confirmed. They will both be two-day tests, and a total of two days must be used by the teams to run young drivers.

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11 comments on “Austria and Spain to host in-season tests”

  1. Did they not ban in-season testing again for this year?

      1. @hunocsi Well this article seems to say otherwise.

        (Apologies, this comment was mine, I was on my phone and couldn’t log in).

        1. Then yes :D By the way I seem to recall an article which said there would be 2 of them (and maybe none for 2016), but don’t know when it was.

  2. Austrian Grand Prix is in July, Spanish GP is in May.

    1. sorry Austrian Grand Prix is in June

  3. I think the test will be held after the races.

  4. Did the in-season testing ban not get ratified? May and June tests… sounds to me like a back-up plan for if the engines aren’t ratified by Spain. 2 European tests rather than Abu Dhabi.. cost saving? I guess no more end of season YDT.. but half the time for young drivers is good, perhaps Kevin might get to drive a car this year after all.

  5. I think all the in-season tests should be young drivers only, that’s the only good thing about them IMO. I love it when teams turn up for a race weekend with a load of new parts and some of them work and some don’t, so that the pecking order shifts around a bit, unpredictably and on merit.

    1. Does it mean young drivers or reserve drivers though? Nico Prost has run in a few Young Drivers’ Tests if my memory serves me, and not to offend anyone 33-years-young or older, but 33 isn’t young in F1 career terms. I’d define a young driver as 25 or younger.

      1. No offence taken , but young is not 20 something anymore , but teenagers ,
        If Max V gets to 25 and still driving F1 then he will be driving for around as long as LewisH has as of today , :)

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