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Titolo: [ENG] Jaguar Signs Up For Friday Testing

Source: 
grandprix.com
http://www.grandprix.com/ns/ns07771.html
Jaguar announced Friday that they will join Renault, Jordan and Minardi
in the two one-hour testing sessions on the Fridays of grands prix. By
doing so, the team will be limited to 20 additional testing days during
the season with one car at each test, a variation on the deal originally
offered by the FIA of ten additional testing days with an unlimited
number of cars.
In an effort to cut team operating costs, the FIA offered teams late last
year a chance to have more track time at each grand prix in lieu of
unlimited testing during the season. The teams who signed up for the
extra track time were to be limited to just ten days of additional
testing during the season, reducing testing costs considerably. Renault,
Jordan and Minardi signed up for the program in November.
Jaguar says they have been offered an alternative deal, however. Rather
than the ten additional testing days with an unlimited number of cars
originally offered, the team has the opportunity to test twenty days with
just one car.
"The management have done their sums very carefully on this, weighed up
every alternative and we are convinced that this gives us considerably
more bang for our buck," said team spokesman Nav Sidhu. "Within the new
framework, we can now have 20 one-car test sessions which, to be honest,
isn't too different to what we had planned in the first instance." The
team had initially planned 26 testing days during the season.
Jaguar says that the extra track time for their young drivers will be the
main advantage of the program, and it will also allow the team to
simplify its testing program.
"First and foremost, our drivers will now have an extra two hours to
familiarize themselves with the circuits and in Antonio's case, this is
invaluable given his debut season as an F1 driver."
"In addition, it makes our logistical operation more efficient in that we
are not having to continuously transport cars from races to tests."
"Instead, we can have one car dedicated to testing and three others
dedicated entirely to the race schedule. There is no transferring of
cars, equipment or people."
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 team had initially planned 26 testing days during the season.
26 giorni-pilota di test? Credo che McLaren, Ferrari o Williams li
abbiano *già* fatti!
 
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 abbiano *già* fatti!
Però penso che la chiave sia "during the season". Se non ricordo male, la
limitazione valeva per i test da effetuarsi durante la stagione di gare.
Credo che i test attuali, prima dell'inizio del mondiale, siano per tutti
"liberi".
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