2022 Formula 1 Thread

[ZCanadian]

Originally Posted by DLSTR

Oh the virus will just disappear lol??? Buffonery..........relaxed protocols with variants more easily spread!! Wait till mechanics are taken out. Drivers dont wrench!!

https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/hu...-test/9070571/

Just 24 hours before practice begins for the F1 season opener, Aston Martin announced that Vettel would not be able to take part.

It means that Hulkenberg will be making his fourth appearance for the Aston Martin team having been drafted in previously when its drivers were taken ill.

Sergio Perez had to miss both Silverstone races in 2020, while Lance Stroll was forced out of that year’s Eifel Grand Prix at the Nurbugring.

Vettel is the ninth F1 driver to test positive and his absence comes just one week after McLaren’s Daniel Ricciardo had to miss last week’s pre-season test with COVID.

Prior to being taken unwell, the Australian had mixed with drivers ahead of the event for a Grand Prix Drivers’ Association (GPDA) photoshoot on the Bahrain grid to show their solidarity with Ukraine following the Russian invasion.

F1 has relaxed its COVID protocols for this year, with its previously strict regime of regular mandatory PCR testing having been wound back.

Now, PCR tests are only recommended, and F1 has moved away from the strict bubble system that was in place throughout much of the 2020 and 2021 campaigns.

Well, Lando might wrench.
And if Danny Ric can fix a tractor, then that's McLaren sorted.
;-)

Yeah, globe-trotting around the world without isolation/bubbles is still asking for trouble in today's reality. As you say, it only takes one or two key members of a team to cause tremendous headaches.

Wonder what happens when both drivers test positive on the same weekend? Call in Amy from the typing pool to fill the other seat?

[DLSTR]

Originally Posted by ZCanadian

Well, Lando might wrench.
And if Danny Ric can fix a tractor, then that's McLaren sorted.
;-)

Yeah, globe-trotting around the world without isolation/bubbles is still asking for trouble in today's reality. As you say, it only takes one or two key members of a team to cause tremendous headaches.

Wonder what happens when both drivers test positive on the same weekend? Call in Amy from the typing pool to fill the other seat?

Oh Amy suit up please .........no not the bikini lol