A technical issue with a plane in Turkey meant Haas’s freight only arrived at the Bahrain International Circuit on Tuesday night, putting the team behind schedule.
As a result, the Haas VF-22 could only get out on-track at the start of the second session on Thursday in Bahrain, costing the team half a day of running.
In a bid to make up the mileage, Haas sought approval from teams to conduct running on Sunday at the Bahrain International Circuit after the three-day test had come to a close on Saturday.
Haas team principal Gunther Steiner said this had been denied by McLaren, but is it understood that multiple teams were against the move.
But they agreed that Haas would be permitted to make up the four hours of running that was lost by completing extra laps after the end of formal running on each day.
“We need to make up now every day,” Steiner said in Bahrain on Thursday. “We can make up four hours of testing, but we need to make it up at the end of the day. We’re not…
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