Formula one: Todt wants test ban lifted

It was crazy to have unlimited testing during the year, but to go from unlimited to completely banned is not right.

ISTANBUL: FIA President Jean Todt will seek to relax the ban on in-season Formula One testing from next year despite concern that it would further disadvantage the smaller teams.

“I’s a stupid decision to have no testing during the season,” said Todt. “In the past it was crazy to have unlimited testing during the year, but to go from unlimited to completely banned is not the right measure.”

Todt said the FIA would propose at a meeting in Valencia on June 23 that from 2012 three two-day sessions during the season should be allowed.

Should the teams resist, he could use his powers to force the measure through for 2013.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 9^th, 2011.