May 11 (GMM) BMW's Mario Theissen has proposed the extension of the grand prix weekend in order to make the sport more responsive to the careers of young drivers.
The team principal of the Swiss based BMW-Sauber team recently scrapped his policy to use Sebastian Vettel on the Fridays of GP weekends because it is too disruptive for the race preparation of the regular drivers.
Theissen suggests that simply adding a test day to the existing three-day schedule, so that teams can freely give mileage to young drivers without the restrictions of the GP and group test formats, would solve the problem.
"Laps at a race weekend are no more expensive than laps at normal tests," the German told the newspaper Stuttgarter Nachrichten.
Theissen added: "The only difference is that at a test, there are no spectators in the grandstands."
Written: Fri, 11 May 2007 12:29:20
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