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Roy Nissany's test driver role linked to 2021 Israeli Grand Prix push

ROKit Williams Racing shocked the Formula 1 community when it signed relatively unknown Israeli driver Roy Nissany to be the team's official test driver for the 2020 season, a role which will see him take part in three Free Practice 1 sessions, as well as a rookie-test day. 25-year-old Nissany has only five car racing wins in 195 starts, and finished twenty-second in the 2018 FIA Formula 2 championship with only a single point to his name. These type of results led to sceptics in the F1 community questioning what Williams exact motives were in signing Nissany as test driver, besides the obvious commercial ones; as Nissany brings Canadian/ Israeli sponsor 'Start Up' onto the car for the 3...
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