© J. Francois Barnard – March 15, 2020
The race that would never be. The Australian government introduced a travel ban for Italy on March 11, 2020. By then, the teams and their personnel have already left their home countries for Melbourne.
To get a fuller picture, we have to go back to February 12, when the FIA announced that the Chinese Grand Prix, scheduled for April 19, was to be postponed. The Australians already feared that their Grand Prix would be affected too.
In light of this decision and updated advice this morning from the Chief Health Officer of the Victorian Government's Department of Human and Health Services, the Australian Grand Prix Corporation confirms the Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix is cancelled immediately.
At 9 am today the Australian Grand Prix Corporation was advised by Formula 1 of their intention to cancel all Formula 1 activity at the Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix.
Picture credit: ©2018 Planet Labs, Inc. CC BY-SA 4.0.
A McLaren team member tested positive for the Coronavirus, and the FIA called that race off. The race was due to take place on the Albert Park Circuit in Melbourne, Victoria.
Weeks before the Australian Grand Prix several major sporting events were either cancelled or postponed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Italian teams, Ferrari and AlphaTauri, expressed their concerns about the Coronavirus. Italy suffered one of the worst outbreaks of the Coronavirus outside China.
We live in uncertain times, and we have to wait and see what will happen.
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