Haryanto may stop Muslim fasting for race day

  • Published on 12 Jun 2016 13:17
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  • By: Danny Sosef

Rio Haryanto's religious beliefs may need to take a back seat to safety in the Canadian Grand Prix on Sunday. The Indonesian rookie is a strict Muslim, and therefore currently fasting - including not drinking water - between dawn and sunset.

But the Mirror newspaper quoted Haryanto's manager Piers Hunnisett as admitting that Ramadan might need to take a back seat to safety when it comes to Sunday's long and high-speed race on the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve.

"It's more of a safety issue," he said. "He has been following his faith in Montreal this week but we will see what the advice of the team doctors is. It is a long race and there is a worry about dehydration.

"Drivers lose a lot of body fluid during a race and we don't want him losing concentration when he is driving at 350kph," Hunnisett added.

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