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Racing Point report seven COVID-19 cases so far this season

The Racing Point Formula One team have had seven positive cases of COVID-19 this season, including both their drivers and team owner, principal Otmar Szafnauer said on Friday.

Mexican Sergio Perez, who missed two races in August, and Canadian Lance Stroll, who was ruled out of the Eifel GP at the Nuerburgring this month, are the only drivers to have contracted the virus since the season started in Austria in July.

Stroll's father Lawrence tested positive this month on the same day his son returned home to Switzerland from the Nurburgring on Oct. 11.

"Two drivers and a team owner and a handful of other people that were tested at the factory and that's it -- so in total I think we're seven," Szafnauer told reporters at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix at Italy's Imola circuit.