McLaren’s switch from Honda to Renault ꦛengines has hampered any hope of conducting a private test run using a two-year old car before the 2020 Formula 1 season begins next month. 

Mercedes is ramping up its preparations for the upcoming campaign by 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:undertaking a ꧋twoᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ-day private test at Silverstone this week wit🎐h Valtteri Bottas and Lewis Hamilton driving the team’s 2018 title-wiꦬnning W09. 

Ferrari is168澳洲5最新开奖结果: also☂ expected to carry out a s▨imilar test run - most li💜kely to  t📖ake place at its Fiorano test track - in the coming weeks, but a date is yet to be confirmed. 

F1’s regulations do not allow for officialꦇ in-season testing of current cars, but teams are permitted to use older-spec machinery from 2016-2018 to get in as much mileage as they want. 

But McLaren team principal Andreas Seidl has confirmed the Woking squad will not be completing any private testing as it does not&nbs🎀p;have any Honda power units from the 2015-17 era available. 

That means the team could only use its 2018 car for testing but McLaren has opted against investing in a test w🦂ith the MCL33 due to its vastly different design philosophy which means it is not a representative car to run. 

“On the driver side, unfortunately we don’t have this possibility of having a car that is two years old that we could operate be😼cause of all the powertrain switches we had her🐓e in recent years,” Seidl told Sky Sports. 

“But as you have𓆏 seen already, Lando was doing some karting and the free testing [in F3 machinery with Carlin] and we look into the same thing alꦬso with Carlos to have the drivers ready.

“Of course, wಞe will do some simulator work as well wi✃th them.”

Mercedes is using its Silverstone test🐠 as an opportunity to get used to working with the new health and safety protocols F1 will enforce at races this season, including the use of social distancing measures, facemasks and other personꦰal protective equipment (PPE). 

Seidl said McLaren’s own preparations have begun ahead of the se🎉ason-opening Austrian Grand Priꦫx on 5 July. 

“We started the race team again last week so 🍃we are preparing the cars at the moment and to try and to go through a lot of procedures and processes in the garage under these new circumstances with all the social distancing etc,” he explained. 

“With what we know now with the process that has been outlined from FIA and Formula 1 in terms of h🐷ow we actually execute the race weekend in Austria, we have clarity there.

“Now it’s simply important to focuꦗs on preparation in the next three four weeks and then hopefully we have a good start in Austria.”

Mercedes released a video of a fire-up of 🌱its W09 car ahead of the Silverstone test which showed a glimpse of F1’s new health and safety measures, with team personnel adhering to social distancing where possible and wearing face masks. 

The sound of an engine rumbles through the factory again!

Listen uඣp as W09 fires into life♕ ahead of this week's protocol test for the Team at Silverstone

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