{"id":172255,"date":"2021-12-12T09:52:28","date_gmt":"2021-12-12T10:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=172255"},"modified":"2021-12-12T12:57:56","modified_gmt":"2021-12-12T12:57:56","slug":"f1-star-ruled-out-with-covid-hours-before-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=172255","title":{"rendered":"F1 star ruled out with COVID hours before finale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nikita Mazepin will miss the season-ending Formula One race after testing positive for COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>Haas will run just one car Sunday in the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix for Mick Schumacher. <\/p>\n<p>Reserve driver Pietro Fittipaldi was not eligible to replace Mazepin because Fittipaldi did not drive in at least one session this weekend.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/cricket\/ashes-2021-josh-hazlewood-and-david-warner-potentially-injured-for-adelaide-test\/1d2de913-3972-4227-999c-422dfe8c8267\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Australia facing awkward injury clouds\"><strong>Australia facing awkward Ashes injury clouds<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/cricket\/ashes-2021-england-fined-for-slow-over-rate-travis-head-for-obscenities\/27c89d61-b129-407f-9025-28584df88185\" title=\"England slugged with fines after heavy loss\"><strong>England slugged with fines after heavy Ashes loss<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/motorsport\/formula-1-2021-abu-dhabi-grand-prix-qualifying-results-max-verstappen-lewis-hamilton\/2f267dc2-55ff-4d04-830f-2912032bfef6\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Verstappen snares crucial pole as Hamilton cops boos\"><strong>Verstappen snares crucial pole as Hamilton cops boos<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mazepin tested positive on-site at Yas Marina Circuit. A second test for the Russian also returned positive.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"7486cd7c-c0ad-4d65-b1b9-6bf47518d45f\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/7486cd7c-c0ad-4d65-b1b9-6bf47518d45f\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"1920\" data-height=\"1080\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Haas team said Mazepin is asymptomatic but will self-isolate and follow \u201crelevant public health authorities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNikita is physically well,&quot; Haas said. &quot;Uralkali Haas F1 Team wish Nikita well and we look forward to his return to the race track in early 2022 for pre-season testing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mazepin is in his first F1 season and the Russian had a career-best finish of 14th in Hungary. He was scheduled to start 20th on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/em><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" title=\"clicking here!\"><strong><em>clicking here!<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Nikita Mazepin will miss the season-ending Formula One race after testing positive for COVID-19. Haas will run just one car Sunday in the Abu Dhabi <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=172255\" title=\"F1 star ruled out with COVID hours before finale\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172255"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=172255"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172257,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172255\/revisions\/172257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}