Ferrari count on Carlos Sainz to race on this weekend’s Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne simply 12 days after having his appendix eliminated, topic to passing an FIA medical assesment.

The Spaniard was identified with appendicitis earlier than the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix and changed by 18-year-old Ferrari reserve driver Oliver Bearman.

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Nonetheless, Ferrari count on Sainz to be match to return, and he was been noticed within the paddock at Melbourne’s Albert Park driving his bike across the observe.

Sainz will not be the primary driver to return shortly after having appendicitis. In 2022, Williams driver Alex Albon returned lower than a month after being admitted to intensive care following surgical procedure to take away his appendix.

In the meantime, Bearman, who impressed in his Method One debut in Jeddah, beginning in eleventh and ending seventh, he can be again racing in Method Two this weekend.

He was the primary driver to make their F1 debut with Ferrari since Arturo Merzario made his with the Italian staff on the 1972 British Grand Prix.