Even if it’s the racing action did at the start of the season in Spielberg, no crash, has changed the Corona of the formula 1: no Fans at the track, no driver parade, Social Distancing in the Interviews and the award ceremony. So right and important these measures are, feels the race weekend with you, but different.
As race winner Valtteri Bottas (Mercedes) says: “During the race, the full concentration on the thing is directed. So it makes no difference. But what I have enjoyed in the normal formula 1 really is before the race, the drivers ‘ parade, all the Fans and to see the flags of different nationalities.”
This atmosphere is lacking due to the empty grandstand after the race. “Especially when one has a good result, as I had it here, it would be nice to celebrate it with the audience, what are we missing now for sure a little bit,” said Bottas. But he knew that his family and Fans cheer from home.
Bottas: Better race than not at all
For you and for all in the Paddock, it would be better “to drive as a race than to not go at all”. In the context of the Spielberg-winner also praises the work of the FIA, FOM and formula 1, which made the start of the season possible in the first place, by the rules of strict safety protocols and behavior for the protection of all adopted.
“It feels very safe, everything is well organized and pretty clear, so we hold all the risk, that someone is really sick, is very low. This is good. I think everyone in our Team, we feel very safe,” emphasized Bottas, even if certain sequences would have a little better upload.
Charles Leclerc (Ferrari), second place in Spielberg, agrees when he says that he, too, the Fans at the track miss. “I look during the race, actually on the stands,” says the Ferrari driver. “Of course not this time, because there wasn’t much to see. (…) This is very strange.”
Norris missed the first Podium of the Fans
“But, as Valtteri said, it is better to drive as a race than nothing,” says Leclerc. “I’m so glad to be back on the track have been. Hopefully the Fans have enjoyed it from home, and hopefully they will, as soon as it is safe, again (on the route; note. d. R.) can come back.”
Lando Norris (McLaren) who could be celebrating on Sunday, his first podium in the Premier class”, missed the cheers of the Fans in the stands in comparison to Bottas and Lelcerc especially. “These guys are used to standing quite often on the Podium, for me it is my first Time,” he explains.
“I think the special thing about it is that the spectators are always there to celebrate with us, whether they are your Fans or not. It’s the atmosphere that makes it easy so much, and it brings a lot of excitement. If I’m here now, there are no Fans, with whom I can share. That makes it a little more difficult.”
Ricciardo praises smooth in Spielberg
nonetheless, the Spielberg-third glad, that at all hazards it can be. His future team-mate at McLaren, Daniel Ricciardo (currently Renault), says: “I definitely tip my hat to all who have contributed to the fact that this is happening, even before Austria, which has made the beginning.”
Although it is for all of the new territory was, with a weekend of racing under the Corona-measures to deny, “everything went pretty smooth,” said Ricciardo, the organization is in place. “The Tests were fine, all the COVID-the things we had to do, everything was on time. (…) I think you have done a very good Job.”
Also, the Renault driver admits: “It will always be strange to have no Fans and all that, but once we had it started, it felt like we were back on track and competed. It felt so real, like it is in the Moment possible. I’m really happy with how everything’s connected.”
For Grosjean “everything feels pretty similar to”
According to positive Romain Grosjean (Haas), President of the drivers Association GDPA recognized in the balance sheet for the first formula 1 weekend of the season. “I think we were all very happy to be here, and I think it is managed in General,” says the Frenchman, who felt, in spite of the many measures quite well.
“Yes, it’s not the Biggest, always wearing masks. Yes, before the race, the atmosphere is a little different. There are less people in the paddock, the Fans are in the stands. And Yes, we have missed. But if once you are sitting in the car and ready for the race, everything feels pretty similar.”
This article was written by Juliane goat spirit
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