Sebastian Vettel will also miss the second race of this Formula 1 season. The Heppenheimer is again absent from the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix due to a corona infection. As Aston Martin announced on Friday, Vettel was unable to travel to Saudi Arabia. Nico Hulkenberg will step in again as a substitute. “Nico did well in Bahrain. We are sure that it will be the same in Jeddah,” said the racing team.
Before the first race of the season, Vettel tested positive for the virus. Until the very end, his racing team kept the decision about an assignment in Jeddah open. However, the German must remain in quarantine in his adopted country of Switzerland. At the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne in two weeks Vettel then return to the car.
Aston Martin got off to a poor start to the new World Cup year. Lance Stroll was twelfth, Hülkenberg was 17th. That’s why the absence of the four-time world champion weighs particularly heavily. Right now would be Vettels Experience in the further development of the apparently weakening new car is important for the racing team. After a radical rule reform, all teams drive heavily modified cars.
