There is barely a sport across the world that hasn’t been disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic, but perhaps one of the most affected is F1. The sport is a global one, with drivers and teams travelling the world to compete, with a record 22 countries planned for visits in 2020. But ten of these have […]
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Opinion: Why the 2020 Australian Grand Prix was the new ‘Indianapolis’
Think Indy 2005, Prost v Senna, Spygate and Nelson Piquet JR being asked to deliberately crash into a wall to aid his mercurial teammate (who’s middle name might as well be ‘politics’) Fernando Alonso. Sport is full of politics and Formula One is indeed no stranger, with the pinnacle of motorsport getting in the headlines […]
Virtual races and FIFA: How the world of sport is coping with COVID
With the world of sport at a complete standstill, all sports leagues around the globe are finding creative ways to keep their fans engaged and to give people some much-needed distraction. This has happened in many different ways: live-tweeting old games as if they were happening now, broadcasting classic events in their entirety and eSports […]
Formula One: Azerbaijan Grand Prix Postponed
The Azerbaijan Grand Prix, which was due to take place in Baku on June 7, has been postponed. This takes the total number of races to be called off before the start of the 2020 World Championship season to eight. The street race joined the F1 calendar in 2016, and race organisers said they would […]
Breaking: F1 season postponed until May
The Formula 1 season will be postponed until May following the coronavirus outbreak as the Bahrain and Vietnam Grands Prix have also been cancelled. The 2020 season was set to get underway on Sunday with the Australian Grand Prix and the Chinese race had already been called off. However, that was cancelled after a member […]
BREAKING: McLaren pull out of Australian Grand Prix with team member testing positive for Coronavirus
McLaren have today decided to take no part in this weekend’s Australian Gran Prix after a member of their team tested positive for coronavirus. The team have confirmed the individual will now enter a period of quarantine. BREAKING: NBA suspended over coronavirus Lewis Hamilton has described Formula 1’s decision to go ahead with the race […]
UPDATE: Coronavirus in Sport
NBA season suspended until further notice: The NBA has announced that all matches this season have been suspended until further notice, after Utah Jazz player Rudy Gobert tested positive for Covid-19. Three teams, including last season’s champions Toronto Raptors, have been told to self-quarantine after all recently playing the Jazz. LeBron James tweeted out his […]