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Why Red Bull's all rookie F1 Abu Dhabi FP1 line-up has value

Red Bull Formula 1 chief engineer Paul Monaghan has said running rookies Jake Dennis and Isack Hadjar in FP1 in Abu Dhabi will potentially provide the team with some useful lessons.

All teams have to field a rookie in each car in one FP1 session during the year.

While other teams have also waited until the last possible opportunity at the season finale for their second runs, only Red Bull will run a rookie in both of its cars, leaving Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez as spectators for that session.

Formula E champion and long-time Milton Keynes sim driver Jake Dennis will have his first run in a real F1 car since 2018, and he will be joined by F2 star Isack Hadjar, who also drove for AlphaTauri in FP1 in Mexico last month.

"It's interesting because when you put a different driver into the car, you get a different perspective on things,” said Monaghan when asked by Autosport about the rookie running.

“They present it differently, their feedback, and if they use different terminologies, it sometimes enlightens us on different ways to look at problems.

“Max is very robust in his feedback, [and] Checo is very similar in that he will state his likes and dislikes. But then Jake might just put a different spin on things. 

"And he just says, ‘This is how I feel it.’ ‘Okay, that's interesting,’ because it opens you up to another way to look at things.

Source: Autosport

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