AlphaTauri has fired up its 2020 Formula 1 car ahead of i🉐ts return to the track onꦏ Wednesday at Imola.

The team will run its ATO1 at the former San Marino Grand Prix venue for a filming day as it steps up preparations prior to the heavily-delayed 2020 season starting in Austria on July 𒐪5.

In doing so, it will become the second F1 team to run its𒈔 2020 challenger ahead of the season-opening Austrian Grand Prix, after Racing Point shook down its RP20 🌠in a similar event at Silverstone last week.

Teams have been preparing for the season to resume following the huge disru💙ption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, which forced the opening 10 races to be postponed or cancelled.

Mercedes, Renault and Ferrari h🌊ave condᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚucted private track days in recent weeks using two-year-old 2018-spec cars, meaning they have been permitted to carry out unlimited running.

Under F1’s heavily-restri🔜cted regulations regarding the testing of current-spec machinery, teams are allowed just two filming days to carry out onℱ-track running. These promotional events include a mileage limit of just 100km using Pirelli’s demonstration tyres.

Imola is one of the venues not on the original 2020 calendar that is being considered by F1 to potentiಞally stage an additional European-based race in the event that more flyaway r♉ounds are called off.

The location of the track is ideal for AlphaTauri given that it 🐎is just 20 minutes𓆉 from the Red Bull-owned team’s headquarters in Faenza.

Red Bull is understood to be planning a similar 🧜test later this week.