After Formula 1 team personnel were evacuated from the paddock on Tuesday amid flooding around the Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari, they were then asked not to return on Wednesday. “Our paddock is not under water,” Alpine engineer Karel Loos told the Belgian news agency Sporza, “but the Formula 2 and Formula 3 paddock is. “At the moment, our trucks cannot leave,” he added. F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali, who was at the circuit on Wednesday, told the same Italian broadcaster: “It was clear when I arrived on Tuesday evening that there were no other alternatives. The track would have been ready, but there was a higher priority.

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