Formula one will scrap plans to return to Bahrain for pre-season testing next winter.<\/p>\n
This year, to guarantee good weather for all-important running of the radically-new cars and engines, the teams headed to Bahrain’s Sakhir track for eight days of running ahead of the season opener in Australia.<\/p>\n
But with cost-cutting now such a high priority, the sport will not be returning to the island Kingdom ahead of the 2015 season, Speed Week claims.<\/p>\n
Pirelli chief Paul Hembery backed the move.<\/p>\n
“Bahrain is much further away from everything than Spain is,” he said, “so testing there is more expensive.<\/p>\n
“Logistically, Bahrain is a nightmare,” Hembery added.\u00a0 “If you have a problem, it takes a lot more time to fly out new parts.\u00a0 Six hours flights, not two.”<\/p>\n
Speed Week correspondent Mathias Brunner said team bosses agreed in Canada at the weekend that three pre-season tests will take place next winter — all of them in Spain.<\/p>\n
The precise dates have not yet been decided, but it is believed the winter testing will begin at Jerez and end with two sessions in Barcelona.<\/p>\n
It is also reported that, also for cost reasons, F1 could once again axe in-season testing, despite the fact the concept of post-race tests at some key grand prix circuits was only introduced this year.<\/p>\n
Brunner said: “It (the in-season test ban) is not yet set in stone.\u00a0 There are team bosses who want at least two tests during the season.”<\/p>\n
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