Sergio Perez will drive a Ferrari Method 1 automobile once more, 14 years after his first run for the crew, in a check for Cadillac subsequent month.
The previous Ferrari Driver Academy member will participate in a two-day check for his new crew Cadillac, which can be a part of the grid in 2026. As Cadillac doesn’t have a automobile of its personal to make use of Ferrari, its energy unit provider, is offering one.
“We gave two of our TPC [testing of previous cars] check days to Cadillac,” stated Ferrari crew principal Frederic Vasseur yesterday. The check will happen on the Imola circuit which is lower than 100 kilometres from Ferrari’s manufacturing unit.
Perez, who left Crimson Bull on the finish of final season, is the one certainly one of Cadillac’s race drivers who is just not at the moment contracted to a crew. His 2026 crew mate Valtteri Bottas is a reserve driver for Mercedes.
Vasseur stated the check will give Cadillac precious expertise of working an F1 storage and the programs it requires earlier than pre-season testing begins on the Circuit de Catalunya on January twenty sixth.
“The problem for them is big,” he stated. “The problem is just not an excessive amount of concerning the automobile, I’d say. Surprisingly, it’s extra the logistics – the set-up of the storage, the infrastructure, the IT programs, and so forth. I believe it’s check for them to place all the things in place.”
Perez initially examined for Ferrari throughout his first season as a Method 1 driver in 2011 when he raced for one more of their buyer groups, Sauber. He and fellow FDA member Jules Bianchi drove Ferrari’s 2009-specification F60 at their Fiorano check observe.
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F1 will maintain three pre-season checks subsequent yr, comprising 5 days on the Circuit de Catalunya plus two three-day checks in Bahrain. The championship will start in Melbourne with the primary race on March eighth.
Footage: Perez’s 2011 check for Ferrari
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