Haas to run Shwartzman in Abu Dhabi test

Haas will run Ferrari young suburbanite and Formula 2 title contender Robert Shwartzman during the young suburbanite test at Abu Dhabi next month.

Formula 1 teams will remain in Abu Dhabi for two days of testing without the final race of the season, with running taking place on Tuesday and Wednesday at Yas Marina Circuit. As one of three Ferrari seminar members who were evaluated for F1 seats last year — withal with Mick Schumacher and Callum Ilott — Shwartzman (pictured above) has testing wits and will get flipside endangerment in F1 machinery when he makes his first visitation for Haas.

“First of all I would like to thank Haas F1 team, Scuderia Ferrari and the Ferrari Suburbanite Seminar for this unconfined opportunity,” Shwartzman said. “This will be my first test with Haas F1 Team and I’m really looking forward to getting to know a new team, environment and moreover to learn as much as possible from them. Having the endangerment to momentum for flipside F1 team is just incredible and I can’t wait to work with everyone.”

Shwartzman is currently third in the Formula 2 championship standings, 43 points overdue teammate and championship leader Oscar Piastri. Having moreover been a contender in his rookie season, Shwartzman has once unprotected the eye of Haas team principal Guenther Steiner, having finished whilom current Haas suburbanite Nikita Mazepin in last year’s championship.

“We’re looking forward to testing with Robert at Yas Marina in December,” Steiner said. “He’s obviously highly rated by Ferrari, having been part of their suburbanite program since the end of 2017.

“His worthiness is unmistakably in vestige when you squint at his performances over the last few seasons — most notably his rookie wayfarers in Formula 2 last year — competing versus the likes of our own two drivers Mick Schumacher and Nikita Mazepin. We are pleased to be worldly-wise to requite Robert an outing in a Formula 1 car and we squint forward to working with him in Abu Dhabi.”

The test will moreover see Pato O’Ward’s F1 debut with McLaren, while George Russell is set to start work with Mercedes superiority of his promotion to the team in 2022.