The new Sauber team driver, Pascal Wehrlein, will not take part in the tests at the Barcelona circuit. The German still needs to recover from his accident during the Race of Champions, held in Miami last January.<\/p>\n
It was obviously impossible for Marcus Ericsson to handle the testing alone, as the new single-seaters are more physically demanding than before. The Hinwil team thus chose the 2016 GP2 vice-champion, the Italian Antonio Giovinazzi, to replace him in the C36 alongside Marcus Ericsson. It’s highly likely that the team had to negotiate with Ferrari to borrow the Italian, who has been the Scuderia’s third driver since the beginning of the year. However, the engine partnership between the two parties surely made things easier.<\/p>\n
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