Shwartzman hopes he impressed Haas after cherry on cake lap time

Robert Shwartzman hopes his performance in the Young Suburbanite Test in Abu Dhabi impressed Haas as well as Ferrari, without setting the fastest time on the final day.

The Formula 2 runner-up was the only suburbanite using a 2021-spec car on Wednesday, with all other teams except Haas having washed-up their Young Suburbanite Test running on Tuesday. Despite that, in the car that was slowest all season Shwartzman put in some strong qualifying simulations late in the day to set the pace superiority of the mule cars testing 18-inch tires, and he says it capped a really productive test for him.

“Overall I came here for the experience,” Shwartzman said. “We’ve washed-up increasingly than 200 laps which is very good in one and a half days. I reverted teams so I have some understanding of how one team works and flipside team works, and moreover the differences in the cars thanks to the testing items we did. So overall it was a very good two days experience-wise.

“I’m happy. Honestly it’s the cherry on the confection when you leave the track and you’re the quickest — it still feels good. I’m just happy for that but it was definitely not my target at any point. The target was to unchangingly improve, which I achieved. Unchangingly do better, whether it was a long stint to be resulting or do what the team is asking me.

“The team is very happy, and I’m happy considering if they’re happy then it ways I did a good job. So overall a very, very good two days.”

Shwartzman hopes he has proven himself valuable unbearable to Haas to earn the endangerment to siphon out its mandatory two self-ruling practice outings next year that must be given to rookies.

“It is the next step, basically. Hopefully I will get FPs with the Scuderia, and maybe moreover with Haas — I would love to do the FPs with Haas considering it’s flipside team, a new experience, and any driving is good driving. Even if it’s a short value it’s still very positive and good learning considering it’s going to be at variegated tracks, so it’ll be very important to just finger the car in variegated environments.”