Ferrari is set to follow Mercedes in under💃taking a private on-track test ahead of the upcoming 2020 Formula 1 season.

Mercedes confirmed on Thursday that it will 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:conduct a privat💎e two-day test at Silverstone next week as the reigning world champ♌ion squad ramps up its preparations for F1’s return next month.

The two-day run at the home of the British Grand Prix will allow Mercedes to get used to working with the strict restri𒁃ctions that F1 will enforce for the opening rounds of the 2020 season, all of which will take place behind closed doors.

Social distancing measures will be followed and personal protective equipment (PPE) will also be used by team members, with Valtteri Bottas and Lewis Hamilton alternating days in M🌠ercedes’ 2018 double championship-winning W08.

It is understood that Ferrari will follow Mercedes in staging a private test event to follow similar protocols and enable Charles Leclerc and Sebastian Vettel the chance to w🎃arm up ahead of the season-opening Austrian Grand Prix on 5 July.

The date aꦿnd location of the test has not yet been confirmed.

Mercedes will be the first team to fire up an F1 car for an on-track appearan🐼ce in nearly five months since ꦰpre-season testing came to a conclusion at the end of February.

F1’s regulations do not allow for o🌄fficial in-season testing of current 2020-spec cars, but teams are permitted to run older cars on Pirelli Academy tyres to get in as much mileage asജ desired.

All teams need to follow꧋ the usual testing procedures, and inform the FIA of the cars being used, the drivers, the duration of the test and its purpose.

On Wednesday McLaren’s Lando Norris stepped up his preparations ahead of F1’s return to action by completing a tes🌃t with Carlin in F3 machin💎ery at Silverstone.

Williams🃏 driver George Russell and Red Bull’s Alex Albon also plan to conduct some form of running in old single-seater machinery bef🐻ore the paddock descends on the Red Bull Ring in early July.