Sergio Perez will take to the observe in a 2023 Ferrari at Imola subsequent month as a part of Cadillac’s preparations for its 2026 debut.
The Mexican and Valtteri Bottas will kind the American crew’s line-up and understandably there’s a want for apply earlier than the crew makes its race debut subsequent March.
With no automobile of its personal to check the American outfit is to run a Ferrari SF-23 as a part of the TPC programme, thereby permitting its crew important to hold out important race simulations earlier than Melbourne.
“We’ll have some testing classes in November,” confirmed Perez, in response to Motorsport.com. “They will be very helpful as a result of we’ll be capable of work with the mechanics and engineers to have the entire crew prepared for the testing program that begins in January, very early within the yr, the place we’ll already be at 100 %.
Since being confirmed by the crew the Mexican – who’s lacking his house race for the primary time because it returned to the calendar in 2015 – has hung out at its HQ in Charlotte and the satellite tv for pc operation at Silverstone, the place he has labored with the crew’s engineers and hung out within the simulator.
Requested his preliminary impressions, he stated: “It is all the time nice to have a crew that listens to you, helps you, and values you. That is what each driver desires of getting.”
