Lance Stroll has revealed that he returned a positive test for coronaviru💝s following Formula 1's Eifel Grand ܫPrix.

The Racing Point driver missed the last round in Germany after falling unwell, w🅺ith Nico Hulkenberg stepping in to fill the seat alongside Sergio Perez.

Racing Point team principal Otmar Szafnauer had said that Stroll had tested negative for COVID-19 on multiple occasio𒈔ns in the build up to the Nurburgring race.

Stroll revealed he tested positive for the virus on Sunday 11 October - race day at the Eifel Grand Prix - but is now ne▨gative and will participate in this weekend’s Portuguese Grand Prix.

“I just want to let everyone know that I recently tested positive for Covid-19 after the Eifel GP weekend,” Stroll said in a statement posted on✨ Instagram.

“I am feeling 100 per cent and have since testedꦡ negative.

“To fill you all𝐆 in on what happened, I arrived at the Nurburgring after testing negative in the normal pre-race teꦺsts.

“On Saturday morning I started to feel unwell and wokeꦚ up with an upset stomach. I followed the FIA♕ protocol and self-isolated in my motorhome and did not re-enter the paddock.

“I wasn’t fit to race so I flew home early Sunday morning. As I 🐻was still feeling under the ♑weather I took a Covid test on Sunday evening.

“The next day the results came back positive, so I stay🔥ed at home self-isolating for the next 10 days. Luckily my symp🌜toms were pretty mild.

“I was tested again on Monday this week and my results were negative. I feel in great shape and I can’t wꦡait to be back with the team and to race 𒊎in Portugal.”

Stroll is the second F1 driver to have contracted COVID-19 this season, after his teammate Perez was force🌳d to skip both Silverstone races earlier this year.

After the last race, the FIA had insisted that Stroll's illness did not ex♋pose any loophole in F1's COVID-19 testing protocols. 

Due to taking a COVID-19 test on Tuesday and being negative, Stroll was allowed to enter the paddoᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚck on Thursday and Friday before he ultimately withdrew from the event on Saturday. 

With F1 personnel and drivers tested every five days for COVID-🔯19, Stroll's next test came on Sunday - when he was positive.

"We don'ꦍt feel there is any loophole," F1 race director Michael Masi said. "The requirement for Lanc🐼e, or any other attendee on that matter, there are the various time requirements to test prior to entering the paddock, and then the follow up testing from that point.

"Based on the Tuesday test, his next test would have been Sunday morning to fulfil the requirements of the FIA COVID protocol. So that one is quiꩵte simple.

"With regards to Lance feeling ill, like any other driver, it's incumbent upon the driver and the competitor,𒁏 in this case, Racing Point, to determine if they feel that their driver is not up to the capacity to drive the car, which they obviously did and chose to do yesterday.

"From the requirements within Appendix S [of the FIA's COVID protocols], it's incumbent upon Racing Point as the s💖takeholder in this case and Lance himself as an attendee to declare within the parameters of the protocol if they are having any of those requirements, and then there is the requirement from there to report.

"None of that has been reported to ꦫthe FIA, so there's nothing further from our perspective at this point in time."