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# Video: What we learned from F1’s on-track return
- URL: https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/video-what-we-learned-from-f1s-on-track-return/
- Published: 2020-06-12T13:19:14.000Z
- Updated: 2023-09-16T18:52:39.000Z
- Description: A Formula 1 car – even if it was a couple of years old – finally returned to the track this week as Mercedes tested at Silverstone with Valtteri Bottas and Lewis Hamilton
- Author: Valentin Khorounzhiy
- Tags: Formula 1, #video, #image-center-center

A Formula 1 car – even if it was a couple of years old – finally returned to the track this week as Mercedes tested at Silverstone with Valtteri Bottas and Lewis Hamilton.

After an unprecedently long off-season as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, F1 [will finally get back to real-life action in Austria in three weeks time.](https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/f1-reveals-initial-2020-calendar-with-two-silverstone-races/)

But things will look very different in the paddock as a raft of new safety measures have been introduced in order to keep personnel safe.

[In our latest video,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=au4MG%5FFvr9A&ref=the-race.com) Scott Mitchell outlines what we learned from a long-awaited glimpse at real-world running and details the new look F1 procedures for the foreseeable future.