Haas will run a live Formula 1 simulator program throughout the Abu Dhabi Grand Priꦫx race weekend for the first time as a trial for 2020, according to Gunther 🐷Steiner.

Haas test driver Pietro Fittipaldi will spend this weekend completing laps in the Dallara simulator in Italy, marking the first time the team has completed such a program in conjunction with it♈s race team in su🐽pport of Romain Grosjean and Kevin Magnussen.

“We’re starting to use it this weekend, but just as a trial but to see if everything works and make sure ev💙erything is in place for next year,” Steiner said on Thursday in Abu Dhabi.

“We’re doing a trial [to see] if the 🐷system works, if 𒆙everything works, then we have control of it.

“It 🦂will not be a help for theไ race track, it will be more if the system works - if we’ve got everything in place, if we can communicate efficiently, if everything works how we want it to work.

“It’s basically a rehearsal of the proces✤s, not of the performance of the car. Maybe we’ll get something out of performance, but the aim is not that one, it’s more to try the system out.

“It’s a step we need for next year to get bet൩ter, working for next year💛.”

Steiner confirmed Haas had 𒐪planned on establishing the live simulator program earlier in the season, but was unable to get it off 🐈the ground in time.

“It🐬 took longer than we wanted it to ta𓆏ke. It’s a difficult task because you don’t realise until you do it how many years teams had to do what they did in the last 10-15 years in six months,” Steiner said.

“It didn’t work out like this. We’ve still got work to do to make it a better system, but it’s a first step. It just took longer than we anticipate💛d.

“There was not one thing that wa🌌s wrong, but we tried to do a lot, and we didn’t achieve it. Or we achieved it, just a bit late.”

Additional reporting by Julianne Cerasoli.