BMW will review its policy to run Sebastian Vettel on the Fridays of grand prix weekends once the circus has returned from Bahrain.
The German squad’s Nick Heidfeld has been an outspoken opponent of the strategy to sideline a race driver in the initial morning session, and in Malaysia his complaints seemed to be backed by his struggle to set up his car in less time than BMW’s closest rivals.
Hinwil-based BMW Sauber explained in a press release that the change of plans for Bahrain this week is simply the result of Vettel and fellow test driver Timo Glock being unavailable as they race in other series.
But team boss Mario Theissen told the news agency ‘sid’: “We will investigate after Bahrain if this (policy) is harming the performance of our race drivers.”
