Fittipaldi – who raced in the final two F1 races in 2020 in place of the injured Romain Grosjean – drove Haas’s converted 2019 ‘mule’ car at Yas Marina on Wednesday, testing the 18-inch Pirelli tyres that will be used in 2022. His fastest lap of 1m28.622s compared favourably to race driver Mick Schumacher’s 1m28.499s from Tuesday. Fittipaldi has re-signed as Haas’s test/reserve driver for 2022. “Pietro hasn’t driven the car for us this year but as usual he’s very professional, he prepared himself well throughout the year, so physically he was ready,” said Komatsu. “We’ve done 123 laps today in the Abu Dhabi heat and his physical condition stayed good throughout the day so his performance didn’t drop off. “We did both low fuel short runs and high fuel …
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