Ferrari will follow the lead of McLaren and Honda by testing at an airfield on the Spanish island of Menorca.
The Real Aeroclub de Mahon, a private airfield on the small Mediterranean Sea island, was this year earmarked by the teams as an ideal location for some straight-line aerodynamic F1 testing.
The airfield boasts an ideal runway of nearly 2 kilometres in length, and an ideal surface, and earlier this year it was reported that venue boss Jose Villalonga was encouraging teams to regularly test there.
Reports from Spain indicate that Ferrari transporters recently arrived at the island’s port ahead of testing this week.
BMW and Toyota are believed to have also expressed interest in testing at Menorca.
So-called straight-line testing is currently excluded from the F1 test agreement, but the FIA last week indicated that the practice from 2008 will be banned except at “FIA approved test tracks” and allowed for only five days per year.
“Full size testing to be subject to the (30,000km capped) F1 testing agreement,” the summary of the World Motor Sport Council’s decisions in Monaco last Friday also said.
