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Hams tested positive for COVID so won’t be racing Sunday.
Bet mercs phone is ringing off the hook for the best drive in town!
Bet mercs phone is ringing off the hook for the best drive in town!
Hams tested positive for COVID so won’t be racing Sunday.
Bet mercs phone is ringing off the hook for the best drive in town!
At least it didn’t have an impact on the championshipHams tested positive for COVID so won’t be racing Sunday.
Bet mercs phone is ringing off the hook for the best drive in town!
I bet Max is happy.Hams tested positive for COVID so won’t be racing Sunday.
Bet mercs phone is ringing off the hook for the best drive in town!
Hams tested positive for COVID so won’t be racing Sunday.
Vandoorne and Gutierrez are the officials but I guess we’ll wait and see? I bet Bottas is sweating. Imagine he gets beaten by the replacement...
in reality Max will win.
Oh no! Get well soon, Hamilton. Diagnosed on Monday, so quite likely infectious on Sunday, there could be a lot more people going down with this.
Will he? He's not actually contesting the race so it won't count as a DNS/DNF.
Oddly, after the race at the weekend I noticed that when Lewis got out of the car and celebrated with the team he was just elbow bumping them all. In other forms of motorsport this year most drivers have been happy enough jumping into the team as normal, presumably confident in the security of their bubble. Anyone know off hand if it has been the norm for Lewis to celebrate in that way this year or did he perhaps already know that either himself or some of the team may have been at increased risk of infection?
"He woke up on Monday morning with mild symptoms and was informed at the same time that a contact prior to arrival in Bahrain has subsequently tested positive. Lewis therefore took a further test and returned a positive result. This has since been confirmed by a retest.
Mercedes will need to replace Hamilton this weekend, meaning his record streak of 265 consecutive race starts since his debut in March 2007 will come to an end. Mercedes reserve driver Esteban Gutierrez is one option that the team have to replace the Briton, as is current Mercedes Formula E driver Stoffell Vandoorne, who is testing with the all-electric series in Valencia on Tuesday.
But Mercedes could also look to former F1 driver Nico Hulkenberg to substitute for Hamilton after the German filled in three times this season for Perez and Stroll, having competed in the British Grand Prix, 70th Anniversary Grand Prix and the German Grand Prix in 2020."