The PCR test is the type of subject that we don't joke with in the Grand Prix paddock. Because the health crisis continues and it can at any time notify the end of the festivities for a world championship, the world of Grands Prix has established strict rules of life and access which go through a bubble and a gauge health, barrier gestures, controlled translations, and, above all, a negative PCR test dating back 72 hours. But what the organizers, officials and other promoters had not thought about was that one of their number would be motivated by an intention to cheat. A candor and an innocence that comes from Misano.
The second Grand Prix organized at Misano this season will be done with one less squad in a team Avintia who nevertheless rebuilt his reputation through his results, and who saw his last meetings before giving way to the team VR46. A mechanic from the structure managed by Reuben Xaus was thus accused of fraud in the health regulations of the paddock by trying to access it with a falsified PCR test. In other words, his test dates were actually wrong.
The paddock will strengthen its controls
It is the association of teams IRTA who reported the infringement in full transparency which was taken up by Mororsport. If she speaks of an isolated case, she nevertheless specifies that reinforced controls on this theme will be carried out during the last three meetings of the season. For a discipline that claims 21 Grand Prix in its 2022 calendar around the world, it is a credibility issue vis-à-vis the authorities who agreed to host it. For the one who was caught, his exclusion for the last three events was pronounced, but a more serious punishment may also be considered later.
