Aston Martin will wait until Friday before making a final decision on who to line up alongside Lance Stroll in the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, the second round of the Formula 1 World Championship. on social networks.
After missing the opening race in Sakhir due to the positivity to COVID-19, Sebastian Vettel has not yet been negativized, so he has not been able to leave for Jeddah and is currently still stuck in Bahrain.
However, the Silverstone team has not yet given up on the idea of putting him back in the AMR22 cockpit this weekend, so they have decided to take another 24 hours, hoping that the four-time world champion will finally have the long-awaited buffer. negative.
It has now been a week since its positivity was found, so the time should be ripe. In any case, Aston Martin took precautions by taking German Nico Hulkenberg with them to Jeddah, who has already replaced his compatriot in Bahrain and is ready to jump in the car if necessary.
Although the team’s performance was disappointing in the first race of the season, but Hulkenberg was a surprise, because despite being at its absolute debut with this generation of cars, moreover after two years on the sidelines of the Circus, with only a few replacements at the ‘active, he managed to keep up with his teammate Stroll, beating him in qualifying.
In the race, however, things went differently, with the Canadian 12th and the German veteran 17th, both however out of the points zone.
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