“And we get very little testing in this championship and we are supposed to race against the frickin’ best in the world so it’s really complicated to stay up there. So for sure, having something like this double-header for all the races would be great because first, we get to race more, and second we get to train, understand, work more on data.”
But while the general consensus is positive, Chip Ganassi Racing’s Kyle LeDuc warned that the template wouldn’t translate well everywhere.
“The double-header has got pros and cons but some of these guys have to turn cars around in two days and build complete race cars, which is insane to do at a race track,” he said, alluding to the full rebuilds that the McLaren and Acciona Sainz teams had to do between races in Sardinia.
“Obviously it didn’t go too badly for us, fairly smooth. I mean, a ton of work, a ton of parts, a ton of bodywork, but it’s more track time too, so you get the second day to build towards it. It’s not horrible.
“I think it depends on locations, we might be more pro to do a double-header in certain locations than others. But yeah, it worked pretty good for us.”
