"Nice to meet you," Fatih said when he arrived in Salzburg, Austria, and finally got to meet his teammates, Yuki Tsunoda and Pierre Gasly. Unfortunately, due to their relative heights, he towered over them as he was on the verge of breaking the 185 cm mark.
The two fist-bumped him with smiles on their faces, or at least that was what could be interpreted as a smile, since they were all still wearing masks to keep up with the COVID restrictions, and they immediately started making small talk.
Fatih, who was worried that his position to replace one of them was going to make the mood awkward, breathed a sigh of relief as he contributed to the back-and-forth conversation.
To his surprise, the other two drivers hadn't met each other much, just like him. Each driver's schedule had been designed around the previous COVID restrictions, making meeting beforehand very difficult, though they had seen one another in the team-wide Zoom meetings.
