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The Canadian driver was already feeling ill on Saturday morning, so he couldn’t even sit in the car during free practice. The team then announced will be replaced by Nico Hülkenberg, and consequently, in the time trial, the German was already sitting in the Racing Point car.
However, the team had not yet released any information on Stroll’s condition, but later Otmar Szafnauer, the first man in the barn, revealed that your competitor’s malaise is not related to the coronavirus.
“It doesn’t feel good from Russia,” the expert said. “I think it’s a little cold.”
“At first we thought, ‘well, we better do tests for the virus.’ We have done it several times, including a test before this racing weekend. And it had three or four negative results. There are also no classic symptoms of the coronavirus, you just don’t feel well. “
And on Friday night she felt nauseous. So he kept sitting on the toilet. And he said, ‘I’ve lost a lot of fluids, I can’t get off the toilet long enough to sit in a race car.’
“I don’t know if he ate something bad or if it was something like a stomach problem. He said, ‘I don’t feel good. And soon a double round will come, I prefer to rest to prepare. ‘
“We were confident that it would improve. You have flu-like symptoms. You just don’t feel good, you can’t exercise and rest. There’s a doctor watching him, and if he’s fit enough to go home, he will go home. “
Szafnauer betrayed, the decision was made shortly before free practicethat Stroll can’t drive.
“30 minutes before the third free practice, I was still thinking, he said ‘I want to do it.’ But then he realized, “if I don’t improve, I still have to qualify and compete.” And he didn’t want such competition in his current state. “
“I was sure I could get out of the toilet. But it all happened 30 minutes before the third free practice. If it had been for that yesterday, we would have called Hülkenberg a day earlier and could have gotten into the car for free practice. “
