Kevin Magnussen is confident drivers will not be rusty when the 2020 Formula 1 seas📖on finally gets going after the extended winter break caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The opening 10 races have been called off due to the outbreak of coronavirus but F1 hopes to get the heavily-delayed campaign off the ground with a series of behind closed doors double-header events, begin💦ning with the Austrian Grand Prix on July 5.

Reigning world champion Lewis Hamilton said he reckons drivers will be 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:“rusty as hell” when the season starts, while Renault’s Daniel Ricciardo expects the first race to be 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:chaoti💞c beca💫use of the prolonged hiatus.

But🌄 current Haas driver Magnussen - who spent over a year on the sidelines between his final F1 start for McLaren at the end of the 2014 season and his return with Renault in 2016 - doubts drivers will struggle when racing begins.

"It w🐻ouldn't fear me, but it would be ex⛎citing in a way," Magnussen told Sky Sports F1.

"We've been out of it for so long now. But I know that you don't really forget it. You don't get that rusty. You get a little bit rusty, but you⛎ don't get that rusty.

"I had a whole season out of a race car in 2015, and that was r🌊eally out completely out of✤ a race car," he added.

"I had two test days, one in a DTM, one in an LMP1 car,💟 but nothing in a Formula 1 car. So in 2016, winter testing, when I got back in a Formula 1 car, it didn't take many laps. It felt like I had only been out of the car for a normal winter.

"You pick it up quickly, an﷽d it's been the same for everyone. It's just exciting, and it would be ♔good to be back.”

F1 bossesꦡ are working on plans to create a “biosphere” environment at the Red Bull Ring so that races can safely go ahead behind closed doors with limited perso🍸nnel present in the paddock.

Magnussen said it is “not ideal” to return t🍰o racing without fans, but backed F1’s proposal to get the season underway.

"It's going to be a big job to get it done. But anything it takes to get back to racing real💎ly, I'm up for it,” he explained.

"We need to do everything we can to ☂ensure we do it in a safe way for everyone. ✤It's not ideal, but it's better than not racing by a long way. If we all get together, I think we can do it.

"We'll see what the measures will be and what we'll need to do, but from what we hear it's already quite a lot, and it's going to ꩲbe very different.

"I'm still looking forward to it, still looking forward to getting back on-track nonetheles🥀s."