Therell Now Be Two Rookies Behind The Wheel In Barcelona FP1

There will be plenty of new faces in FP1 this Friday in Barcelona! As well as Nyck de Vries hopping into a Williams tomorrow, F2’s Juri Vips will moreover be making his F1 weekend debut with Red Bull in first practice.

Vips is a familiar squatter for the Red Bull Racing gang as the team’s Reserve Driver and will be driving in place of Sergio Perez for FP1 in Barcelona.

The Estonian has been overdue the wheel of an F1 car before, taking part in a couple of post-season tests for Red Bull in 2020 and 2021.

As well as Vips and de Vries, Robert Kubica will make a return and be overdue the wheel of an Alfa Romeo tomorrow for the hour-long session.

Kubica is certainly not making his debut, with 99 F1 starts and a victory under his belt! He plane raced in F1 as recently as last year when he had to stand in for a covid-positive Kimi Raikkonen for two events.

As part of a new rule for 2022, all teams on the grid have to requite rookies a endangerment in at least two FP1 sessions, with the term rookie stuff specified as someone who hasn’t taken part in increasingly than two F1 races.

Sorry, Robert, that ways you don’t count ?

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