Best on the planet Lewis Hamilton will miss this present end of the week’s Formula 1 Sakhir Grand Prix in Bahrain subsequent to testing positive for Covid.
His group, Mercedes, said the Briton woke with gentle indications on Monday and restored a positive outcome at an ensuing test and again at a retest.
Hamilton, who is currently self-disengaging, won the Bahrain Grand Prix at a similar circuit on Sunday.
The 35-year-old said he is “crushed” to miss Sunday’s race.
“I’m gutted not to have the option to race this end of the week but rather my need is to follow the conventions ” he wrote in a post on Instagram.
“I am truly fortunate that I feel OK with just mellow side effects. If you don’t mind care for yourselves out there. You can never be excessively cautious.”
Hamilton, 35, secured his record-equalling seventh world title at the Turkish Grand Prix on 15 November.
Sunday’s race will be the primary Hamilton has missed since his F1 debut at the 2007 season-opening race in Australia.
He should restore a negative test prior to getting back to the enclosure and in this manner is an uncertainty for the last race of the period in Abu Dhabi on 13 December.
Mercedes said Hamilton was tried multiple times a week ago, remembering for Sunday at the Bahrain International Circuit, and restored a negative outcome on each event. with gentle manifestations on Monday, he that a contact “preceding appearance in Bahrain” had tried positive.
Hamilton is the third F1 driver to test positive for Covid this season following Sergio Perez and Lance Stroll.
Who will fill in for Hamilton?
Mercedes have not said who save driver Stoffel Vandoorne -F1 driver – will go to Tuesday’s Formula E test in Valencia.
Vandoorne, who hustled for McLaren in 2017 and 2018, is for group chance of utilizing Williams driver George Russell.
The 22-year-old Briton is a Mercedes protege and is being ready for a possible change to the processing plant group in F1 eventually.
Subsequently, Mercedes Wolff could be enticed by giving Russell a coincidental drive – which two races if Hamilton isn’t liberated from Covid before the season-finishing Abu Dhabi Grand Prix the next end of the week.
may, Russell is under agreement to Williams until next season and the British group would need to consent to deliver him briefly before Mercedes could place him in. Mercedes legally 2021 recently, they found out if they would be set up to deliver Russell for next season, to see where Valtteri Bottas. Williams said at the time that they were not set up to deliver him from his agreement a year ahead of schedule.
Williams are rearward in the constructors’ three focuses behind Haas is their lead driver who has completely out-performed partner Nicholas Latifi this season, they may not be excited about delivering him.
