Listen to this article His deputy Eduardo Freitas has also tested positive, although the Portuguese was already committed to the World Endurance Championship event at Spa on the same weekend, so was not due to travel to Florida. After Australia, the USA is the second 2022 F1 host country that requires a negative COVID-19 test, taken within the previous 24 hours before entry to the country. Wittich and Freitas, who were drafted in this year after the FIA removed Michael Masi from the race director job in the wake of the Abu Dhabi GP controversy, were tested on return to their respective home countries from Imola, and the teams were told about the situation at Tuesday’s meeting of the F1 Commission in London. While Wittich still has time to recover and log a negative test, it’s not yet c …