USF1 grated extra straight-line test days

According to a report on Autosport, Team US F1 has been granted extra straight-line testing days for the 2010 season to help the preparations for its debut campaign.

The 2010 Sporting Regulations originally limited teams to just six straight-line test days, and discussions recently further cut this back to just four. These days can be exchanged for one day of wind-on full-scale tunnel time – which equates to four-hours of running.

Despite the latest agreement, which has yet to be put into the regulations, teams have agreed that US F1 can stick to the original six-day limit.

US F1 sporting director Peter Windsor told Autosport: "We have been given special dispensation to have six straight line/full-scale tunnel days, rather than the four to which all the other teams are limited.

"It is an example of how the FIA and the teams have gone out of their way to make us feel welcome."