Who will be testing at the Hungaroring next week?

40

This weekend's Hungarian Grand Prix is the final race before Formula 1's summer break. But for the teams, there's one more task they have to take care of before they can put their feet up on the beach.

Two days after the chequered flag in Budapest, the Hungaroring will be open for business again at 9am local time on Tuesday August 1 for the first of two days of in-season testing. It's the second such official test of 2017 - the first was held in mid-April at Bahrain International Circuit.

To encourage them to give track time to rookie drivers, each team must give two of the four days of in-season testing to drivers who have competed in no more than two Grands Prix.

The big draw for next week's test will undoubtedly be someone with a good deal more experience in F1 than that. Robert Kubica will be behind the wheel of the Renault R.S.17 on the second day of the test, with Nicholas Latifi in charge of testing for the opening day.

Hungary the right venue to test Kubica - Hulkenberg

19-year-old British driver George Russell will be running both days for Mercedes. Santino Ferrucci is similarly solely in charge of the Haas for the whole duration. Meanwhile Nikita Mazepin and Lucas Auer will spilt time in the Force India on both Tuesday and Wednesday.

Gustav Malja gets to spend Tuesday in the Sauber before handing over to Nobuharu Matsushita. Williams will be fielding Felipe Massa and Luca Ghiotto, - the arrangement of their respective days and times in the car is still to be announced.

Charles Leclerc will get time in the Ferrari, although it's not confirmed which day or who else will be attending for the Scuderia. Similarly, Sean Gelael will have one day in the Toro Rosso. In each case, one of the team's full-time drivers is likely to take the other day.

Yet to confirm their driver line-up for next week tests are Red Bull and McLaren. Development driver Pierre Gasly is likely to appear in the RB13, while it would be no surprise to see Lando Norris paired with Stoffel Vandoorne in the MCL32.

Team	Confirmed	Possible
Mercedes	George Russell (both days)	-
Ferrari	Charles Leclerc (one day)	Kimi Raikkonen
Red Bull	TBA	Max Verstappen Pierre Gasly
Force India	Lucas Auer (both days/half) Nikita Mazepin (both days/half)	-
Williams	Felipe Massa (one day) Luca Ghiotto (one day)	-
Toro Rosso	Sean Gelael (one day)	Carlos Sainz Daniil Kvyat
Haas	Santino Ferrucci (both days)	-
Renault	Nicholas Latifi (Tuesday) Robert Kubica (Wednesday)	-
Sauber	Gustav Malja (Tuesday) Nobuharu Matsushita (Wednesday)	-
McLaren	TBA	Stoffel Vandoorne Lando Norris

GALLERY: F1 drivers' wives and girlfriends

Keep up to date with all the F1 news via Facebook and Twitter

Andrew Lewin

Andrew first became a fan of Formula 1 during the time when Michael Schumacher and Damon Hill were stepping into the limelight after the era of Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell and Aryton Senna. He's been addicted ever since, and has been writing about the sport now for nearly a quarter of a century for a number of online news sites. He's also written professionally about GP2 (now Formula 2), GP3, IndyCar, World Rally Championship, MotoGP and NASCAR. In his other professional life, Andrew is a freelance writer, social media consultant, web developer/programmer, and digital specialist in the fields of accessibility, usability, IA, online communities and public sector procurement. He worked for many years in magazine production at Bauer Media, and for over a decade he was part of the digital media team at the UK government's communications department. Born and raised in Essex, Andrew currently lives and works in south-west London.