Japanese Grand Prix cancelled due to rise in COVID-19 cases
Posted: 18 Aug 2021, 10:53
BBC reporting it now - wonder if the race will be replaced by another one or if the teams will have some extra preparation pre-US Grand Prix.
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Re: Japanese Grand Prix cancelled due to rise in COVID-19 ca
Posted: 18 Aug 2021, 11:32
I hear that there will be a revised calendar released soon. I'm hoping for breaks, but as usual I'm cynical that we'll get four consecutive races at Abu Dhabi
Re: Japanese Grand Prix cancelled due to rise in COVID-19 ca
Posted: 19 Aug 2021, 02:50
I have a feeling this was known internally for sometime. the official "F1 Experiences" page had ticket packages up very briefly for a Texas GP before being pulled.
Re: Japanese Grand Prix cancelled due to rise in COVID-19 ca
Posted: 19 Aug 2021, 12:42
Likely as not, F1 has already raced in Japan for the last time ever.
Definitely, F1 has already raced in Australia for the last time ever.
And to think that, once upon a time, someone on this forum - I wonder who it was? - made an offhand comment with the implication that Bernie Ecclestone was so drunk with lust for the acquisition of hard cash that he'd book a Grand Prix in Saudi Arabia with no concern given to that country's reputation that's even more chequered than the chequered flag - but, come on, even he wouldn't do that, surely? And yet, here we are, in the regime of his successors, about to do exactly that.
The Taliban Grand Prix - coming to the streets of Kabul in 2029, with Formula E trial events in the 2027-28 and 2028-29 seasons. You heard it here first. And on that day, you will refer to me as Nostradamus.
Following F1 is becoming more and more of a case of Stockholm Syndrome with every passing year.
Definitely, F1 has already raced in Australia for the last time ever.
And to think that, once upon a time, someone on this forum - I wonder who it was? - made an offhand comment with the implication that Bernie Ecclestone was so drunk with lust for the acquisition of hard cash that he'd book a Grand Prix in Saudi Arabia with no concern given to that country's reputation that's even more chequered than the chequered flag - but, come on, even he wouldn't do that, surely? And yet, here we are, in the regime of his successors, about to do exactly that.
The Taliban Grand Prix - coming to the streets of Kabul in 2029, with Formula E trial events in the 2027-28 and 2028-29 seasons. You heard it here first. And on that day, you will refer to me as Nostradamus.
Following F1 is becoming more and more of a case of Stockholm Syndrome with every passing year.
Re: Japanese Grand Prix cancelled due to rise in COVID-19 ca
Posted: 19 Aug 2021, 20:41
dinizintheoven wrote:Likely as not, F1 has already raced in Japan for the last time ever.
Definitely, F1 has already raced in Australia for the last time ever.
And to think that, once upon a time, someone on this forum - I wonder who it was? - made an offhand comment with the implication that Bernie Ecclestone was so drunk with lust for the acquisition of hard cash that he'd book a Grand Prix in Saudi Arabia with no concern given to that country's reputation that's even more chequered than the chequered flag - but, come on, even he wouldn't do that, surely? And yet, here we are, in the regime of his successors, about to do exactly that.
The Taliban Grand Prix - coming to the streets of Kabul in 2029, with Formula E trial events in the 2027-28 and 2028-29 seasons. You heard it here first. And on that day, you will refer to me as Nostradamus.
Following F1 is becoming more and more of a case of Stockholm Syndrome with every passing year.
So how long until a Grand Prix in North Korea, Mondas, or Skaro?
Re: Japanese Grand Prix cancelled due to rise in COVID-19 ca
Posted: 20 Aug 2021, 03:07
Well at least North Korea has an actual car industry. (no joke, they really have)
Re: Japanese Grand Prix cancelled due to rise in COVID-19 ca
Posted: 20 Aug 2021, 05:34
Please, NOT another venue having to take 2 races back to back please! (23 races is too many anyway!)
Re: Japanese Grand Prix cancelled due to rise in COVID-19 ca
Posted: 20 Aug 2021, 06:12
Butterfox wrote:Well at least North Korea has an actual car industry. (no joke, they really have)
And Skaro build lots of individual transportation devices...
Re: Japanese Grand Prix cancelled due to rise in COVID-19 ca
Posted: 20 Aug 2021, 10:38
Wallio wrote:I have a feeling this was known internally for sometime. the official "F1 Experiences" page had ticket packages up very briefly for a Texas GP before being pulled.
An email received from an /r/F1 user seems to disconfirm it.
Re: Japanese Grand Prix cancelled due to rise in COVID-19 ca
Posted: 23 Aug 2021, 19:21
So Japan can hold an Olympics that last 16 days over multiple places no problem but can’t hold a Grand Prix weekend lasting 4 days in one location and that has a much tighter COVID bubble?
Someone help me understand how that makes sense
Someone help me understand how that makes sense
Re: Japanese Grand Prix cancelled due to rise in COVID-19 ca
Posted: 24 Aug 2021, 07:34
Freeze-O-Kimi wrote:So Japan can hold an Olympics that last 16 days over multiple places no problem but can’t hold a Grand Prix weekend lasting 4 days in one location and that has a much tighter COVID bubble?
Someone help me understand how that makes sense
It seems the financial and political repercussions from not holding the Olympics would be much more than the cost of not holding the Japanese GP, hence why that has gone ahead and the race has not.
There are also reports that Liberty Media are now looking to hold a race in Qatar in November to replace the Australian GP, helping them to maintain that 23 race calendar. It does make you wonder whether that might be a one off, or if they could use this as a means of adding that circuit to the calendar to pad it out.
Re: Japanese Grand Prix cancelled due to rise in COVID-19 ca
Posted: 24 Aug 2021, 18:26
Nothing can stop that inevitable 23 race calendar! Liberty will host a thousand Abu Dhabi races if that's what it takes 
At the very least Qatar is somewhere different (for F1 at least). Variety is at least welcome.
At the very least Qatar is somewhere different (for F1 at least). Variety is at least welcome.
Re: Japanese Grand Prix cancelled due to rise in COVID-19 ca
Posted: 28 Aug 2021, 11:24
Looks like Qatar gets its Grand Prix. I can't exactly say I'm happy about yet another slave-driving Middle Eastern petrostate getting a Grand Prix over established tracks, but I can't say I'm surprised either.
Re: Japanese Grand Prix cancelled due to rise in COVID-19 ca
Posted: 28 Aug 2021, 12:17
The sub-heading
Formula 1 has cut its schedule to 22 races this season...
sounds like a parody headline from 20 years ago when they started expanding the calendar. 22 races in a year is cutting back from the original plan of 23, and it will still be the most races ever done in a single year. I can't imagine the teams and their families are complaining about this.
Formula 1 has cut its schedule to 22 races this season...
sounds like a parody headline from 20 years ago when they started expanding the calendar. 22 races in a year is cutting back from the original plan of 23, and it will still be the most races ever done in a single year. I can't imagine the teams and their families are complaining about this.
Re: Japanese Grand Prix cancelled due to rise in COVID-19 ca
Posted: 28 Aug 2021, 17:20
Rob Dylan wrote:. I can't imagine the teams and their families are complaining about this.
I hope that's sarcasm, because I definitely can imagine the complaints!
Unless you mean complaints about the cancellations. First time, I read it as no complaints about there being a record number of races...
Re: Japanese Grand Prix cancelled due to rise in COVID-19 ca
Posted: 28 Aug 2021, 18:57
As a good friend of mine on the other side of the Atlantic said:
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a clown honking a horn at a human face... forever.
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a clown honking a horn at a human face... forever.
Re: Japanese Grand Prix cancelled due to rise in COVID-19 ca
Posted: 29 Aug 2021, 01:34
dr-baker wrote:Rob Dylan wrote:. I can't imagine the teams and their families are complaining about this.
I hope that's sarcasm, because I definitely can imagine the complaints!
Unless you mean complaints about the cancellations. First time, I read it as no complaints about there being a record number of races...
The Baker hurt himself in his confusion
Re: Japanese Grand Prix cancelled due to rise in COVID-19 ca
Posted: 29 Aug 2021, 08:08
Butterfox wrote:dr-baker wrote:Rob Dylan wrote:. I can't imagine the teams and their families are complaining about this.
I hope that's sarcasm, because I definitely can imagine the complaints!
Unless you mean complaints about the cancellations. First time, I read it as no complaints about there being a record number of races...
The Baker hurt himself in his confusion
Baker needs a cuddle from his mummy...
Re: Japanese Grand Prix cancelled due to rise in COVID-19 ca
Posted: 03 Sep 2021, 17:23
It’s lucky these tracks don’t make a lot of money from F1 (thanks Bernie) as we’d possibly see a few shut down permanently if they relied on it. Ironic.