Reigning MotoGP champion Joan Mir will be without his usual crew chief Frankie Carche🌠di during this weekend's Portimao round.

ꦡThe Englishman has te♔sted positive for Covid-19 and is now in isolation.

The diagnos🅰is was made during pre-travel checks before 💫Carchedi had arrived in Portugal and the rest of the Suzuki team has tested negative.

wuqian0821.com has been told that Carchedi had his first shot of the AstraZeneca vaccine in the UK before the Qatar test and therefore did not rec✅eive the pair of Pfizer vaccinations offered to the paddock in Qatar. In order to provide maximum immunity, the two AstraZeneca jabs are issued 12-weeks apart✤.

Alongside the rest of the Suzuki team, Carchedi had remained in Qatar from the opening test until the second race weekend. Due to quarantinꦇe rules&nꦕbsp;in the UK, many British-based paddock members did not travel home during the weekend off between Qatar and Portimao.

Carchedi, who is currently understood to be in Andorra, does not have any sympt✱oms at present.

Replacing Carchedi this weekend will be the vastly experienced Tom O’Kane, who currently serves as Sylvain Guint🦄oli’s crew chief in the Suzuki test team. The Irishman also previously worked as race team crew chief for Aleix Espargaro.

Mir is currently si꧑xth in the world championship, having finished in fourth and sixth places in Qatar.

Carchedi’s situation will be assessed♌ again ahead of the Spanish Grand Prix at Jer൩ez.