Santino Ferrucci makes F1 debut with Haas in Silverstone test
American GP3 driver Santino Ferrucci made his F1 debut with Haas on the first day of the Silverstone test yesterday.
The 18-year-old, who was concentrating on aero work, set the seventh best time of the day. His running was cut short by rain in the afternoon, but he will get another chance today.
"It was great to get out in the car this morning, especially to run over 300kms," he said.
"Unfortunately, there was a lot of rain in the afternoon. We didn't really want to run too much in the wet, especially with the aero testing we had planned. Hopefully we'll get better weather tomorrow and we can achieve all our goals. I'll spend tonight looking at my driving and I'll work on gaining even more confidence in the car. We'll be focusing on the car tomorrow if the engineers are happy with my driving."
Team boss Guenther Steiner said: "Santino did a very good job. We've all been impressed with his professionalism. He was prepared for the test. He was well set up to be able to handle the car. These cars are very complicated, but he adapted quickly, was reliable and he didn't put a foot wrong all day.
"Unfortunately, it rained in the afternoon. We were meant to be doing some aero testing, but there was no point while it was so wet. We only ended up doing a couple of laps as a result. We go again tomorrow and hope that it's dry so we can let him drive and learn even more."
