Posted on 12th April 2017
It was announced by the Sauber F1 Team yesterday that Pascal Wehrlein will return to action in the Bahrain Grand Prix after missing the first two races of the 2017 Formula 1 season.
The Mercedes protege’s pre-season build-up was disrupted by a violent accident in January’s Race of Champions in which he sustained back injuries.
Wehrlein thought it in his best interests that having missed weeks of training, he was not fit enough to compete with the new, more demanding F1 cars, and decided to withdraw from the Australian GP following Friday practice and then missed China too.
He was then replaced at Sauber by Ferrari junior Antonio Giovinazzi, who finished 12th in Australia and retired in China last weekend after crashing early in the race.
In an interview with RTL Sport last week, Mercedes motorsport chief Toto Wolff predicted last week that Wehrlein would definitely be back for Bahrain.
“We decided to give him 10 days of proper training instead to return him to the shape he needs to properly drive this car then he will come back in full force in Bahrain.” said Wolff
The Sauber F1 Team confirmed via its Twitter account yesterday that Wehrlein had the green light to return to racing at Sakhir, alongside Marcus Ericsson.
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