Cancel three more F1 races, Hamilton will kneel when F1 comes back

Azerbaijan, Singapore and Japan races were cut from the competition schedule for 2020, according to F1’s announcement today.

As such, seven of the 22 races are canceled this season. In addition to the three stages mentioned above, there are Australia, the Netherlands, Monaco and France.

The Singapore F1 race will not take place this year

Six races have been scheduled for the period from 5/7 to 6/9: Austria, Hungary, England, Spain, Belgium and Italy. In particular, the Austrian and English stages are organized two stages. On June 11, F1 Director Ross Brawn revealed that Bahrain and the UAE will be the last two races of the 2020 season. The goal of F1 is to organize 15 to 18 stages this season.

Hamilton will kneel when F1 comes back

Lewis Hamilton, the current F1 world champion, vowed to act for the rights of black people when attending the Austrian Grand Prix.

“The laws and prejudices created hundreds of years ago still exist and poison the present society. Martin Luther King has dedicated his life to the ideals we face today. But fairness.” not exist yet, “Hamilton wrote on Instagram.

Hamilton has repeatedly expressed his support for the movement to fight for the rights of black people.

Hamilton, the first and only colored racer in F1 racing history, spoke out strongly to claim the rights of the disadvantaged group in this sport, after the black citizen George Floyd was killed by police in the US. Recently, he posted a photo of Martin Luther King – American rights activist – and promised to kneel at the Austrian GP stage to show his support for the Black Lives Matter movement. to live).

Following Hamilton’s comments, F1 Racing Director Ross Brawn expressed his support for the Mercedes star and pledged to create more opportunities for blacks to join F1. An F1 spokesman told the Daily Mail Hamilton’s intention: “This is an important issue. We always support those who show their interest in the fight against racism.”

Silverstone still has the advantage to host many races this year

According to the current situation, after Canadian GP was suspended, French GP is currently holding the opening stage this season. However, this race also faces the risk of being postponed because France has issued a ban on crowded gatherings scheduled to last until mid-July.

Meanwhile, the organizers of the British GP race – scheduled for July 19 – set a deadline to decide on the ‘fate’ of this year’s event by the end of April.

Silverstone said it is willing to host more than one race here, as the racetrack has many different structures. One of them is that they can race in the opposite direction of the current F1 racing structure, which will be an interesting challenge for all.

Besides, England is also the place where the headquarters of 7 F1 racing teams are located, so the logistics issue, as well as the organization, will not be a great burden.

Other major British sporting events such as the Primier League, which are postponed until the end of April, The Open Championship, held in mid-July, are likely to be postponed to September, while the Grand Slam This year’s Wimbledon tennis has been officially canceled and will only return for 2021.

MotoGP is not confident the tournament can reach the 13-legged mark by 2020

As for the “colleagues” at MotoGP, although they do not want to, but if the situation worsens, they only hope to organize 10 races this season.

After the races at Jerez and Le Mans were delayed, MotoGP did not offer a new update schedule, like what they did when previous events (Qatar, Thailand, USA, Argentina) were delayed / cancel.

CEO Carmelo Ezpeleta added that it is necessary to complete 13 races in a year to qualify for the ‘World Championship’, applied under ‘normal conditions’. And the world is in the middle of a pandemic, and this is an unprecedented situation, so every decision will be made depending on the specific situation.

However, in the opinion of Ducati’s Sports Director, Mr. Pablo Ciabatti, the perspective that Mr. Ezpeleta is still too active, and he proposes that just finding five countries and organizing multiple races in each location will be easier and more reasonable.