Every driver to sit out of an FP1 session

Young drivers, are due to be given an increased chance to show what they are made of this year, with each driver set to sit out of an FP1 session.

This is set to come into play after team bosses agreed in Mexico that two FP1 sessions must be reserved for young driver running which starts this year. Rookie tests in the latest cars are few and far between apart from the young driver test at the end of the season.

Normally junior/reserve drivers get the opportunity to privately run F1 cars during the season but they only take place in older machinery due to the cost implications involved.

Over the years, there has been lots of complaints about the lack of opportunities for young drivers to show their capabilities in Formula 1 cars.

Ross Brawn had spoke previously about how Friday running is set to include young rookie drivers in the future. After thoughts of a mandatory rookie to run in each Fp1 session by a different team, the rule of two weekends per team has offered the freedom for the teams to decide when they want to use their younger drivers.

Brawn is also putting in place that teams do not use more experienced runners, in the way that Alfa Romeo have previously used Robert Kubica in FP1 for example.

With AMuS says drivers will need to have had fewer than two F1 starts to qualify as a rookie under these rules.

“Friday running is coming in,” F1 managing director of motorsports Brawn told Autosport back in September 2021. “And we are being very careful about how we define a rookie. Let’s wait and see how we define it. I think it’s next year they will need to run a young driver on a Friday, every team a certain number of occasions.”

My Opinion-

I think this is a good idea, it gives young drivers an opportunity to show teams what they are made of and potential for a seat in the future. Also it gives the young drivers more experience and learn about an F1 car and the way it works and a get to know the team too.