Camping at the track: From the lives of the Formula 1 stars

One reads, another plays and another grills. Formula 1 life at the racetrack, weekend trips in motorhomes and luxury caravans. No long journey, no long departure to work. Wake up, get dressed, have breakfast, go racing. It has something of a camping romance about it. If the reason for this weren't so serious: The Foreign Office has warned against traveling to Catalonia, among other places. Formula 1 is still competing in the risk area; the Spanish Grand Prix, around 30 kilometers from Barcelona, is in full swing.

Sebastian Vettel did not enter the Catalan metropolis on Thursday morning, but via Girona to the northeast, about 60 kilometers from the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. From there we went straight to the track. And Vettel will stay on the track until the sixth Grand Prix in the Corona emergency season is over. Does he have time besides racing and meetings with the engineers, reads Vettel. The 33-year-old four-time Formula 1 world champion doesn't want to reveal what. Vettel is not allowed to go home Vettel knows about the return regulations to his adopted Swiss homeland. According to them, the father of three would have to go into quarantine for ten days. Problem: In a week and a half we'll be leaving for the race in Spa-Francorchamps. So Vettel won't be traveling home after the Spanish race.

Sebastian Vettel – he likes to read in his free time. © AFP / JOSEP LAGO

The British in the limited but still large entourage of Formula 1 or the teams that are based in England, such as Mercedes or Red Bull, are allowed to return with a special permit despite the actual quarantine regulations. In a bubble since the beginning of July For the premier class it is the end of the second three-pack – three races on three consecutive weekends. The employees, the drivers - they have all been living in a bubble since the start of the season at the beginning of July, around four months after the originally planned start, in order to keep the risk of infection with the Sars-CoV-2 virus as low as possible. Teams and drivers should also have as little contact as possible with each other. Sergio Perez, who was missing for two races, is now back again after a negative Corona result.

Some live in the hotel, but others like Vettel or Lewis Hamilton and his Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas have made themselves comfortable on the track. Like recently in Silverstone. Bottas then told Hamilton what happened there, much to his amusement. “Roscoe left a big pile in front of my door,” said the Finn, also clearly amused, describing the events of last Saturday. “A gift,” Hamilton joked back with a hearty laugh, “one every day.”

The English bulldog sleeps in the living room, Hamilton then told us about his life as a track camper. To pass the time, the 35-year-old Brit took his music travel set with him and a games console. Recently, he said, he also played with Vettel's teammate Charles Leclerc. Vettel may have preferred reading.

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Camping at the track: From the lives of the Formula 1 stars

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Camping at the track: From the lives of the Formula 1 stars

This time the drivers have nothing to gain from Barcelona. The Formula 1 bubble ventures into the risk area of ​​Catalonia. The drivers are coming to terms with the circumstances during the Corona period.

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This time the drivers have nothing to gain from Barcelona. The Formula 1 bubble ventures into the risk area of Catalonia. The drivers are coming to terms with the circumstances during the Corona period.