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Piastri added to McLaren reserve options to replace Ricciardo

Alpine has agreed that its reserve driver Oscar Piastri can be called upon by McLaren if necessary, meaning it has four reserve options in place if it needs to replace Daniel Ricciardo due to his positive COVID-19 status. Ricciardo started feeling unwell on Wednesday and eventually returned a positive COVID-19 result via PCR on Friday, ruling him out for the rest of the final pre-season test in Bahrain. With the season-opening race just one week later, Ricciardo should be released from isolation on Thursday but if for any reason that doesn’t happen then McLaren has multiple options in place. Nyck de Vries, Stoffel Vandoorne and Paul di Resta were all named as possibilities by team...
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