Formula 1 Postpones 2020 Chinese Grand Prix Due to Coronavirus Outbreak

This is the discussion thread for a recent post on GTPlanet:

This article was published by Andrew Evans (@Famine) on February 12th, 2020 in the Formula One category.

 

They might as well cancel that race.

 

Thats too bad. With China gone we have to wait a whole month between Vietnam(April 5th) & The Ditch GP(May 3rd).

 

To be honest, I don't care if this race is taken off the calendar completely. If they still want to run it, how can they fit it in to the schedule? When would the race be run otherwise? I would be surprised if they could find a suitable date. They couldn't possibly shift it to the summer break as that would anger the drivers and the teams.

 

I think they've got tarmac down now, but that is indeed how most of the circuit looked a couple of months ago

 

I too wouldn’t miss this track, it’s not all that interesting, I’m not really a fan of the long boring straight. Over the years we have lost far more interesting tracks that have produced much better racing than the Chinese GP; India, Korea and Turkey were much better, more interesting circuits than China in my opinion.

 

There are over 10,000 people under quarantine in Vietnam, so this too could be in jeopardy of being postponed or cancelled.

It is speculated the epidemic could last for over 60 weeks, so all East Asian GPs are potentially affected.