Poll: Australian Grand Prix 2020, Melbourne - Race 1/22

[el_dazza]

Still heard nothing officially....

Liberty doing a goooood job here.

Bizarre, the season begins in what, 5 hours? Surely fans will be travelling now, if it is cancelled this late there's going to be aome majorly ****** off people.

 

[hominid]

From here: http://www.f1reader.com/list/news/latest#/news/australian-grand-prix-cancelled-243958

The race has been cancelled following McLaren's withdrawal, still not official as the FIA hasn't said anything yet.

 

[Journey]

still not official as the FIA hasn't said anything yet.

Maybe they'll keep the decision sealed between themselves, and Ferrari... er.. wrong thread.

 

[GravyMonster]

Being reported as cancelled on Motorsport.com too, yet still nothing official. Absolute cluster****. Heads should roll for this one.

 

[MissChief]

It seems the race officials and marshals received a text early this morning (local time) that everything is still going ahead with two seater runs happening in a few hours.

 

[Psycho Ned]

You get the feeling this is a blame game of who wants to be the one to pull the plug as I guess it has implications on who foots the bill.

 

[Flibster]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1238191963314233344

 

[Journey]

They should rename the sport Formula Falcepalm.

 

[CaptainRAVE]

Wait, so it is happening? May as well carry on, that’s what Boris reckons will be the best course of action.

 

[kitfit1]

Generally speaking, most of those actually working in F1 are young, fit and certainly not in any "at risk" group. There are though those that work within F1 that certainly fall within the "at risk" group. The FIA oversite at most races mainly consists of peeps over 60 at a minimum, most if not all of the senior marshals will be over 60. A lot of these will be full time and travel race to race. F1 should just pull the the first 5 or 6 races this year at least, until this starts to pan out and peeps and governments get a handle on things.

 

[MissChief]

Generally speaking, most of those actually working in F1 are young, fit and certainly not in any "at risk" group. There are though those that work within F1 that certainly fall within the "at risk" group. The FIA oversite at most races mainly consists of peeps over 60 at a minimum, most if not all of the senior marshals will be over 60. A lot of these will be full time and travel race to race. F1 should just pull the the first 5 or 6 races this year at least, until this starts to pan out and peeps and governments get a handle on things.

I’m not sure if they employ any full time Marshall’s. While some senior Marshall’s may travel and be employed by F1 the majority are local volunteers.

 

[el_dazza]

Wonder if that text was sent by Gibbo and his mates again

 

[Psycho Ned]

This is getting a USA 2005 balls up vibe about it. Circuit is open and the fans are being let in, domestic series are gonna run. If everything runs bar the F1 that is crazy, either the whole thing is off or it isn't?!

 

[el_dazza]

There are a few places on Twitter saying the race is on, quoting the Chairman of the Australian GP. Again, nothing official. FIA really need to sort this mess

 

[Ysmalari]

Sky planner has no live practice listed, highlights are on there in the afternoon but there's nothing early morning for the two sessions; not looking good.

 

[CaptainRAVE]

https://www.reddit.com/r/formula1/comments/fhjrif/is_the_2020_formula_1_season_over/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

 

[koolpc]

Race is not on. Its been cancelled

 

[Cob]

Source?

 

[el_dazza]

I really don't see how, with 3 and a bit hours to go until P1, they can now cancel it. If they did, they'd have put something out in plenty of time to allow people to change their plans..

Right? Oh yeah, this is the FIA we're talking about

 

[Psycho Ned]

https://www.reddit.com/r/formula1/c...urce=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

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