Formula 1 will make full vaccination of all staff working in its paddock compulsory from this season onwards including drivers, engineers, team staff, journalists and other guests etc, a spokesperson has said. of the commercial branch of sport.
The requirement, which was first reported by the Times newspaper and the BBC, will apply to anyone entering the paddock – an exclusive area where teams and drivers settle in for a weekend of race. “F1 will require all personnel to be fully vaccinated and will not ask for exemptions,” the spokesperson said.
No psychodrama Djokovic
A Djokovic affair could therefore probably not happen in Formula 1. The Serbian tennis player, world number one, had been arrested by the immigration services on January 6, released by a court four days later, before being again arrested, and forced to leave Australia after the government’s decision to cancel his visa. A decision accepted by the courts.
According to the BBC, this obligation would have no impact on the 2022 starting grid since all the drivers would have already received at least two doses of vaccine against Covid-19. F1 is expected to present a record calendar of 23 races this year, with the return of several Grand Prix such as Australia, Canada, Japan and Singapore, canceled for the past two years due to the pandemic.