Thread: Lance Stroll to Williams F1?
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Old 7 Nov 2016, 15:56 (Ref:3686240)   #50
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Originally Posted by Mike Harte View Post
I don't believe that there are any rules that prohibit using older technology cars for their own purposes. I doubt that it would provide any better research results if they wanted to test new parts than running them in a wind tunnel or a simulator. And this seems to be born out by what is emerging from the latest Pirelli tests for their 2017 tyres.

And for all we know, Ferrari may well be running their older cars at Fiorina to help their junior drivers: I doubt that they would actually publicise the fact, and as they would be older machines, the media would have no interest.
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