Zak Brown has blasted Racing Point over their failure to give Lance Stroll a COVID test during the Eifel Grand Prix weekend, after which the driver tested positive. In a remarkable exchange during the constructors’ press conference at the Portuguese Grand Prix, with Racing Point team principal Otmar Szafnauer sitting next to him, McLaren CEO Brown questioned why Stroll’s doctor had said he did not need to take a test for the coronavirus. The Canadian driver had been feeling unwell since the Russian Grand Prix two weeks earlier with a stomach upset, which was so bad on the Saturday morning of the Eifel GP that he told the team he could not take part in qualifying. Stroll insists that...
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