Ferrari gave Mick Schumacher more valuable F1 driving time by testing one of his old cars at Fiorano.
Despite driving for one of Scuderia’s customer teams, Haas, this year, the 22-year-old German remains a Ferrari Academy driver.
The switch to the SF71H, the 2018 Ferrari F1 car, was clearly seen as a benefit for the reigning Formula 2 champion and covered over 200 km in a test on the Fiorano circuit on Thursday morning.
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Covered more than 200 km for @SchumacherMick this morning 
# essereFerrari
# SF71H pic.twitter.com/SSsfC2EkpQ
– Scuderia Ferrari (@ScuderiaFerrari) April 22, 2021
In the afternoon it was Callum Ilott, Ferrari’s test driver, and the Briton drove a little less kilometers for almost 200 km.
Ilott, who finished second behind Schumacher in the F2 classification last year, is combining his test tasks this year with the race in the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup.
On his debut in this series in Monza, the same weekend as Schumacher drove at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix in Imola, Ilott finished fourth for the Iron Lynx team with his two co-drivers Antonio Fuoco and Davide Rigon.
Schumacher wasn’t the only F1 racing driver in Fiorano this week, as Carlos Sainz covered more than 300 km in the SF71H on Wednesday.
A productive day
more than 300 km in the ess # essereFerrari
# SF71H @ Carlossainz55 pic.twitter.com/YmrqmTQTER
– Scuderia Ferrari (@ScuderiaFerrari) April 21, 2021
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The duo experienced a fate full of contrasts in Imola on Sunday. Sainz was entitled to be satisfied with his performance as he worked his way up from 11th on the grid to fifth in front of his teammate Charles Leclerc.
However, Schumacher will have been less happy when he hit the barrier on a wet track while warming his tires behind the safety car, and afterwards said he was later “driven in rage” because of his mistake.
The son of Michael Schumacher, the seven-time former world champion, admitted to being surprised by a lack of grip, which he found alarming.
“It’s very difficult for people to understand how this affects the grip,” Schumacher said of the temperature drop. “It’s not like a street car that you can drive in wet or dry.
“It’s like you’re driving in hot conditions and then suddenly you’re driving on ice. There’s no handle at all so it’s very tough.
“It’s something I have to learn, but the team is fully behind my back and they give me all the information I need to learn these things.
“But in the end you have to feel it.”
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