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Ferrari must change approach: "So we lose these dates"

Whereas the first and second free practice sessions both lasted an hour and a half in 2020, from this season they will only last a single hour. This means that teams in Formula 1 have less time to prepare for qualifying and the race. So choices have to be made, Laurent Mekies has stressed. The sporting director saw during the opening weekend in Bahrain that especially the long runs suffered.  Read more Praise from Verstappen: 'He is passionate, driven and wants to win' "At least during FP1 you can't try long runs anymore. Nobody did that, maybe in the future we’ll find the way to do that again, but for the moment this kind of work will disappear. So we lose this data," Mekies...
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