Ferrari to rely on Robert Shwartzman and Antonio Fuoco for test at Abu Dhabi. The 2020 season isn't quite over yet.

The 2020 season isn’t quite over yet, with the majority of F1’s teams in action once last time in Abu Dhabi for Tuesday’s ‘young driver test’.

While a collection of young guns will take to the track at Yas Marina, a few veterans or former F1 drivers will also rack up the miles over the course of the day.

The test was initially scheduled for young drivers only, or those holding an international A licence or who have not taken part in more than two Grands Prix.

But Renault’s lobbying of the FIA to allow it to include 2021 driver Fernando Alonso led to a rule change, with the day at Yas Marina also open to drivers who did not race full-time in F1 this season.

Alonso will therefore add to the previous mileage he enjoyed during his testing program with Renault onboard the French outfit’s 2018-spec R.S.18. On the other side of the garage will be Renault junior Guanyou Zhou.

Scuderia Ferrari had hoped to include new high-profile recruit Carlos Sainz in Tuesday’s test, but that option was ultimately dismissed by the FIA. Instead, the Italian outfit will rely on F2 race winner Robert Shwartzman and fellow FDA member Antonio Fuoco.

Mercedes will entrust its championship winning W11 Black Arrows to Stoffel Vandoorne and Nyck de Vries, its works Formula chargers. And Tuesday’s test will mark the latter’s grand F1 debut.

Red Bull has assigned its pair of RB16 cars, one of which won on Sunday in the hands of Max Verstappen, to former Toro Rosso driver Sebastien Buemi. The Swiss driver will driver alongside another genuine young gun: Estonion F2 racer Juri Vips.