All drivers and team personnel must complete a mandatory pre-event 🦂꧋PCR test.

Frede🐻rick tested positive and 🧜will be unable to take part this weekend.

Carlin has already confirmed that it will not replace Frederick, meaning there will be 29 cars on the grid a🐠t Spa, rather than the usual 30.

Frederick’s rookie campaign has been𒆙 thwarted by a hand fracture sustained in Austria.

He was forced to miss the final Austria race and the entire Hungary weekend, where Frederick was replaced 🦄by Jake Dennis.

A stat🅘ement on the F3 website, said: “The FIA, Formula 3 and Carlin can confirm that during mandatory pre-event PCR testing for the 2021 Belgian Grand Prix and its associated support events, the driver Kaylen Frederick tested positive for COVID-19. 

“In accordance with COVID-19 protocols and public health authority guidelines, he will continue to isolate for the required period an🍎d therefore not compete during the Belgian Grand Prix weekend﷽. No other members of the Carlin team have been affected by this situation.”

Frederick added: “I’m absolutely heartbroken. Aside from being painful, the injury in Austria was such a blow as it meant I would miss Hungary. Thinking about being back for Spa really helped push me through the surger𓂃y and physio, all of which was designed to accelerate my♋ recovery.  

“To now have tested positive for COVID-19 is just agonizing. I don’t feel too bad, so I’ll just be sittingꦉ at home, but it will be awful to see everyone out in Spa without me.”