Formula one factories began to re-open this week after serving mandatory closures.<\/p>\n
Within the one-month gap between the Hungarian and Belgian grands prix, teams agreed to close their doors for two full weeks as a cost-cutting measure.<\/p>\n
The first teams to shut down at the stroke of midnight after the Hungaroring race were McLaren, Mercedes, Williams and Sauber, so those teams were eligible to re-open on Monday.<\/p>\n
McLaren test driver Gary Paffett marked the end of the shutdown by working in the Woking based team’s simulator, and he will be back in action on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
And Williams said the first tasks when its Grove headquarters got back up and running was stripping the Budapest-spec cars “in prep for Spa”.<\/p>\n
Cosworth’s F1 division re-opens on Tuesday, and HRT on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Ferrari and Toro Rosso will remain closed until next Monday, and a day later Red Bull, Renault and Force India will re-open.<\/p>\n
“We will be on holiday, but that does not mean our brains will stop working,” said Ferrari’s Stefano Domenicali recently.<\/p>\n
“Maybe one can even find fresh inspiration when outside the normal working environment and I expect this time to be a fertile one for ideas, which when all is said and done, are what make the difference,” he added.<\/p>\n
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