Finally official.
BREAKING: 2020 AUSTRALIAN FORMULA 1 GP CANCELLED
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Phillip Horton
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The FIA and Formula 1, with the full support of the Australian Grand Prix Corporation (AGPC) have therefore taken the decision that all Formula 1 activity for the Australian Grand Prix is cancelled.
Victorian premier Daniel Andrews told 7News Sydney: “On public health grounds, there will be no spectators at the grand prix this weekend if a race actually happens at all. That is a matter for them and they will make announcements very soon.”
So Australian authorities have no say in the matter ? Even if they think that public health is an issue they can not prevent the F1 from racing. I found that hard to believe.
Does that mean now that police will be on location to prevent fans from entering the area ?
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OK, posted that at the same time the cancellation came.
So Australian authorities have no say in the matter ? Even if they think that public health is an issue they can not prevent the F1 from racing. I found that hard to believe.
Does that mean now that police will be on location to prevent fans from entering the area ?
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OK, posted that at the same time the cancellation came.
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Although that was because of travel restrictions imposed on Continental Europe, rather than a direct concern for the virus from organizers.
Because they probably wrote it at the time which in itself speaks volumes. Maybe they were hoping for a miracle ? In any case, making it official with less than an hour to go they now have thousands (I guess) on site. That's very poor management.
Likely their comms people has drafts ready to go for every possible outcome, then someone on the webteam forgot to update the timestamp before making it public. In case they change it later, here's a screenshot showing this was prepped over 7 hours ago.
Isaac Chavira
Livery Designer
I think @Bram Hengeveld should take the top racers in this site and hold a virtual live race, full time, so we can cheer on our brothers and sisters.
Seven hours of legal meetings to spell check every letter of the announcement also
Hope we can see what happened behind the scenes next year on Netflix.
Cancelled and Zandvoort too. Can't see it happening with so many people being on such a small track with a shitty infrastructure.
Ricoow
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Different bet then, what is the first grand prix for 2020?
Somehow I doubt that very much.
Without spectators as that has already been said. On second thought, what they say isn't worth much after today I guess.
It's the freakin flu people!!
Yeah, I chuckled when I loaded the page and it told me "8 hours ago".
They even embed the precise (millisecond-level!
) timestamp into the page, which translates to "Thursday, 12 March 2020 15:55:03.762 GMT" - not so long after the media started reporting that it was being called off.I wonder if they'll bother to "fix" it at all now...
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So not chance of handing over the GP later?
