Lewis Hamilton targets record as F1 returns after lengthy COVID-19 hiatus

SPIELBERG: Defending champion Lewis Hamilton will be targetting Michael Schumacher's record when Formula One returns this weekend after the 2019-20 season was savaged due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Austria's Red Bull Ring in Spielberg will play host to the first race of the season, which otherwise would have been the 11th race on the normal calendar.

Six-time champion Hamilton, who is gunning to equal Schumacher's all-time record of seven titles, stated recently that everyone will have to follow changes put in place by the authorities for the sport to operate successfully in the wake of the pandemic.

"We are preparing the best way we can for what is going to be the most difficult season that Formula 1 and all of us has experienced," Hamilton told Mercedes earlier this week as per Sky Sports.

"With the difficult times that we're facing and the changes that we have to make in order to operate."

Several laws have been put in place for safety of everyone involved which will see the F1 in a brand new avatar altogether.

Four-time champion Sebastian Vettel, who had earlier announced that this will be his final year with Ferrari, expressed his happiness with the prospect of getting back on the circuit after the long enforced break.

We've been waiting now for quite a long time - and it has started to feel like a long time," Vettel told Ferrari as per Sky Sports. IANS

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