• misery mansion@lemmy.world
    4·
    15 days ago

    So how do these work now, it will have to be a 2024 spec car, or earlier, right?

    Going to be a lot quicker than the academy cars!

    • SlurpingPus@lemmy.world
      6·
      15 days ago

      She’s been previously driving in LMP2 for one year, where power:weight is almost two times better than in F1 Academy cars (until LMP2 apparently folded in some way). Both Formula Regional and F1 Academy were a downgrade for her.

      She’s back in LMP2 this year, and is also a development driver for LMP Hypercar team Peugeot TotalEnergies.

  • Microw@piefed.zipEnglish
    3·
    15 days ago

    I do wonder how many private tests f1 teams do every year with old cars for junior drivers or paying drivers that we never know about because they never bevome public knowledge

  • SlurpingPus@lemmy.world
    3·
    15 days ago

    Considering that she was announced as a development driver for Mercedes in January, one would indeed hope that she would drive some cars for them.

    • Microw@piefed.zipEnglish
      1·
      15 days ago

      Most development drivers mainly do sim. But the question is always: how many tests in old f1 cars do the teams do behind closed doors, without anyone knowing?