Ferrari and Cadillac hand cars to reserves for first practice in Brazil

Ferrari and Cadillac have made arrangements to put their reserves behind the wheel in first practice at Interlagos. Dino Beganovic will stand in for Charles Leclerc for Ferrari and Colton Herta will take Sergio Perez’s car for Cadillac, in line with the season’s requirement to field a driver of limited F1 experience twice over.

Most teams see to such obligations in the closing rounds. Beganovic comes out of the Ferrari academy; Herta joined the Cadillac program after a career in IndyCar.

With a sprint off the schedule at Interlagos this year, first practice is the sole full hour of dry running before qualifying, so both Leclerc and Perez will be in the garage for it.