Why HAAS F1 drivers are banned from GT3 tests like Vrstappen

Four times world champion Max Verustapane Last weekend in the motorcyst community raised a massive conspiracy when he ran one Ferrari – For all things – in a test in Nerburgering Norcellif. Now, Ayo Komatsu, the boss of the Haas team, has put his foot down and said that his team’s driver will not follow the example of the Red Bull Racer.

V mustol 1 Miami Grand Prix and later this week took advantage of the difference between Emilia-Romagna GP Have some fun under the pseudonym name “Franz Harman”. In the guise, he tested a Ferrari 296 GT3 in Nerburgering, increasing some eyebrows in this process.

Ferrari 296 GT 3 was run by Emil Frey Racing, which operates his team of Verustapane in the GT World Challenge, and was bedded in Vestapen’s false, so it did not remain secret for a long time. But the secret nature of early entry, and rumors that Vastapane broke the lap record, yet made more than a small wave of interest.

But when it is believed that Vastapane’s contract lies in the contract that he is allowed to have such hobbies, other drivers are less lucky.

“No,” Komatsu’s uneven response when asked if he would allow him Oliver bearman Or Estaban Okon To follow the suit.

“Step by step,” Komatsu told Autosport ahead of Emilia-Romagna GP. “Max is a multiple world champion, okay? Oli is a crook.

“Even Estaban, he has still received a lot to prove. He is focusing. What is the benefit of racing him in another race?

“I think they are very lucky that they are driving an F1 car for their jobs. It’s so fun, I think.

“Honestly, it is busy enough, really. You know, in the middle of these 24 races – not that we have not got enough race, ok? – They need to take care of their physical condition, mental state.

“In the middle, they have to work with engineers, simulators. It’s not that they are sitting at home what to do. So, I think they have got a lot in their hands.”

There are also risks from being engaged in extra curricular racing. As Vestapen told during her test, she had the advantage of hundreds of hours of SIM racing in her free time, so managing the appearance of slow cars and knowing where to go through. And he was in the right car.

“It is definitely more dangerous for me to sit in a slow car and depend on sharp cars,” Vastapane said during his Thursday’s media session in Emola.

Whereas in the last decades, the F1 drivers said in every weekend, often in a variety of categories – Jim Clarke was fluent and luxurious in a lotus cortina because he was in a lotus gray pre -car – the nature of motor racing has changed.

The F1 calendar has expanded, its drivers have become more professional and they no longer need the money that says, sportscar will bring racing. What is more, contracts and branding concerns get against driving cars from various manufacturers.

In the modern era, some drivers are able to interact on racing in other categories in their contracts, but fate of fate Robert Kubika elder. Among the most promising drivers of his generation, he was stopping a Skoda Fabia Super 2000 car around the hills of Liguria at the 2011 Ronde Di Andora rally, when he got out of the road and a railing entered the cabin, partially separated his right hand.

Fernando Alonso There was enough contractual weight for McLaren 2017 Monaco GP to shed her so that she could compete with Indy 500, but maybe he would not have come even who was still pulling the F1 wire of F1 at that time.

In 2015, Canadian Grand Prix did not hit 24 hours with Le Mans and Nico Hulkenburg Taking advantage of this for the race of Porsche in mythological enduro. Since he used to run with Force India at that time, there was no producer clash to act as obstacles.

But when Hulcanbberg returned to the F1 Padock in Austria, widely brought as the Le Mans winner, the cooks at the top. Eclestone attracted all the attention directed to the world of sportscar and the then new world endurance championship was commercially vexatious and harassed.

As such, Halkenberg was duly called to the ‘Berney Bus’, directed to apply a sock in it, and emerged from the smoked-glass envoyn of the closter of Eclestone instead of a spring.