the 18-year-old Christian Lundgaard debuts in Formula 1 at this weekend’s virtual Vietnam Grand Prix. The Danish teen, who in four years has been in the Renault Sport Academy, make up for the French bilfabriks official team.
After the season’s first eight grandprixer has been canceled or postponed because of the corona virus, has the Formula 1-the organization arranged an official virtual VM-series.
the Weekend’s races with the official title ‘Virtual Vietnam Grand Prix to be run at the time, where the ‘real’ contest should have been held in Hanoi. The ‘run’ on the Albert Park track, which should have laid the asphalt for the cancelled WORLD cup-premiere in Australia 15. march.
All 10 teams make up the virtual VM-series, but only five of the fixed riders are expected to start in the weekend. Charles Leclerc (Ferrari), Alex Albon (Red Bull), Lando Norris (McLaren), George Russel, and Nicolas Latifi (both Williams) have all signed up for the race.
The other seats are filled by gæstekørere, and Lundgaard get the australian standardvognskører Other Heimgartner as teamkammerat.
the First section, Virtual Bahrain Grand Prix, were held for 14 days ago. Here asked Haas F1 Team up with the former Formula 1 driver and current tv commentator Anthony Davidson and esport-the specialist ‘Redeye’. In the coming weekend represented Kevin Magnussens team of reservekørerne Pietro Fittipaldi and Louis Deletraz.
Kevin Magnussen told last week B. T., that he did not have the proper equipment to participate in the virtual VM-series.
Virtual Vietnam Grand Prix starts on Sunday evening at 21 utc, and can be seen on Formula 1’s official YouTube channel.
