It is definitely holiday-time in formula one when Ferrari’s media boss Luca Colajanni has a Maldives holiday booked.<\/p>\n
“We all need a breather”, wrote Telegraph correspondent Tom Cary.<\/p>\n
He’s not the only one.\u00a0 Silvia Hoffer, working for McLaren’s PR department, was stocking up on gossip magazines in Hungary, the last race before a four-week calendar break.<\/p>\n
“I need something to read on the beach,” she smiled, revealing her vacation destination is Italy.<\/p>\n
The reason for the rare glut of holidays is a mandatory two-week factory shutdown for all the teams.<\/p>\n
Red Bull’s factory will stay open until later this week, but McLaren opted to kick-off its two-week shutdown at the stroke of midnight after Sunday’s race, despite having a lot of work to do to improve the MP4-25.<\/p>\n
“I’d love not to have a shutdown and be ploughing on, to understand what’s permissible on the front wing and make them next week,” said Martin Whitmarsh.<\/p>\n
The happiest vacationer is therefore Mark Webber, the Hungaroring winner and new championship leader with just seven races to go.<\/p>\n
“There’s everything to play for,” said the Australian, “but not until I’ve turned my phone off and had a couple of weeks’ holiday!”<\/p>\n
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