“It is important that as a sport we are transparent and I had a good meeting with Mohammed last night,” Hamilton said. Hamilton’s title rival Max Verstappen said he did not see the need for a full report to be published but he said: “It’s good to discuss about happened in the year before. Red Bull’s Sergio Perez has called for drivers to be able to race if they have Covid as long as safety precautions are taken, but Hamilton said it was important to continue to take precautions. “There was no way I could have raced when I had it (at the end of 2020),” he said. “It is a heavy and serious conversation in the background,” Hamilton said.

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