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FIA Medical Car team hit by COVID

The FIA will have a new Medical Car team at the Turkish Grand Prix after both of its regular members tested positive for COVID-19 ahead of the event. Alan van der Merwe and Dr. Ian Roberts are the usual medical car team, with van der Merwe as the driver, that helps ensure rapid attention in the case of an incident. The pair were thrust into the limelight in Bahrain last year by Romain Grosjean’s crash at the start of the Bahrain Grand Prix, with Roberts helping the Frenchman from the burning wreckage of his Haas before issuing initial treatment. Both van der Merwe and Roberts have tested positive for COVID-19 prior to the start of the race weekend in Istanbul, and so will not be present...
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