But unlike last year, the event – seeing inexperienced youngsters entrusted with F1 teams’ grand prix cars – will not take place immediately after the season finale, according to a report by Italiaracing.
Indeed, in 2011, Brazil is scheduled to host the last round of the championship in late November.
It means the young drivers’ test at Abu Dhabi will take place two weeks before the season concludes, after the Yas Marina event in the middle of 2011′s penultimate month.
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Police detonate suspected bomb in F1 paddock(0)Monaco’s party atmosphere late on Thursday was broken by the sound of an explosion. Bomb police cordoned off an area of the formula one paddock near the media centre after someone noticed a suspicious plastic package. Experts detonated it with a controlled explosion just before 10pm, the Press Associated reported. It also emerges that some |
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Schumacher must convince Mercedes to ‘want him’(0)If Michael Schumacher wants to keep racing beyond 2012, he will need to convince Mercedes. That is the claim of former German F1 driver Christian Danner, referring to rumours the seven time world champion’s future beyond this year is uncertain. Schumacher, 43, has said he is yet to sit down for talks with Mercedes, who |
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Button says Lotus car to beat in Monaco(0)McLaren’s Jenson Button has named Lotus as the team to beat in Monaco. After Romain Grosjean was second fastest in both practice sessions on Thursday, Button’s teammate Lewis Hamilton concurred that the “Lotus looks pretty good”. “Normally, there are seven tenths between the two tyre compounds,” said the 2008 world champion. “Jenson was only four |
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Mansell in a sling after cycling smash(0)Nigel Mansell is F1′s one-handed FIA race steward this weekend at Monaco. The 1992 world champion walked into the Monte Carlo paddock with his arm in a sling. What happened? “Broken collarbone,” the former Ferrari, Williams and McLaren driver told Swiss newspaper Blick on Thursday. “I fell off my bike.” Mansell, 58, is an avid |
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Raikkonen wears James Hunt helmet in Monaco(0)Kimi Raikkonen is paying tribute to one of his heroes this weekend at Monaco. During Thursday practice for this weekend’s blue-riband event, onlookers were surprised to see the late James Hunt apparently at the wheel of a 2012 black and gold Lotus. In fact, it was Finn Raikkonen wearing 1976 world champion Hunt’s iconic black |
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