So I wonder if he might not be best advised to take the rest of the season off to prepare for his final fling at Ferrari next year. Lauda suffered 11 retirements from 13 races, and enough was enough at the Canadian Grand Prix. He had tested for Brabham, and there he was suddenly about to compete in the Canadian Grand Prix – wearing Lauda’s race suit. James Vowles, then of Mercedes and now of Williams, brought in Antonelli and predicts he will be a world champion one day. A fly-in, fly-out trip to and from the other side of the world for the third race of the season is lunacy. Melbourne would have staged the opener in 2020, too, but Covid for striking. Williams team principal James Vowles got it absolutely right when he dropped Logan Sargeant for the Australian Grand Prix.

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