
Some F1 teams are still awaiting the arrival of their cars, equipment, and various related components at Brazilian Grand Prix. Many F1 air cargo had been delayed from Mexico to Brazil due to heavy fog at Mexico City Airport on Tuesday morning.
McLaren, Ferrari, Alpha Romeo and Haas F1 the teams most severely impacted the air freight delay. Preparations deadline for tonight has been removed, so teams can work through the night once all the delayed freight has finally arrived to be ready for Friday Practice and Qualifying.
Haas F1 team boss Guenther Steiner told reporters the overnight curfew had been waived and scrutineering times adjusted as a result of the problems, which he had heard were due to bad weather in Mexico.

“It’s landed but I don’t think everything is at the track yet,” he said of the freight.
“Apparently the plane landed. That was what I was told maybe 45 minutes ago so it should be all at the track in the next hours.
“I think the guys just have to work through the night,” he added. “I don’t know if we need to but it will be for sure a late night.”
Asked if the freight delay was a result of F1 trying to pack too many races into the calendar and stage three races on three different continents, Steiner downplayed its impact, believing such a delay “can happen with a normal double-header” and that it was “just one of the circumstances which happens now and then.”

Steiner added: “This year with the corona, just to get this amount of races in, we had to do [a triple-header], because in the end it got tighter and tighter, it got squeezed, and that is why they put them in. I think we will get out of this one OK.
“But for sure, FOM is looking at that to see if they are sometimes making a risk assessment that there is a risk that we cannot do something, and for sure lessons will be learned out of this one.”
Brazilian F1 circuit Interlagos is one of the trickiest tracks for teams to complete their pack-up at, but Steiner felt a delay before Qatar would have had a bigger impact.
“I think if this delay happens going to Qatar it would be a struggle,” Steiner said.
“I think for Qatar, it’s also the people – it’s a long flight from here, the guys break down the garage, break down the cars, and then ship them and then jump on the plane for I think it’s about 15-hour flight to get there, plus the time difference going ahead.
“So I think the next week will be pretty tough. But as you said, if you have got this issue next week, it has a bigger consequences than this week.”