Todt now now not looking ahead to “a typical F1 season” in 2021
Formula 1 confronted an extraordinary 2020 season of 17 rounds in Europe and the Center East as a result of COVID-19 pandemic, with a late birth up in July and an especially congested time desk that bumped into December.
Final month, the World Motor Sport Council accredited a chronicle 23-speed calendar for 2021 that sees F1’s broken-down flyaway races return to their usual slots.
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Loads of weeks earlier, outgoing F1 boss Hunch Carey stated the sport change into “planning for 2021 events with followers that provide an expertise on the subject of typical and query our agreements to be honoured”, but in response to FIA president Todt, the challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic are “now now not over” as he braces for added changes to the time desk.
On Monday, Motorsport.com learned that the season-opening Australian Mammoth Prix is determined to be postponed.
“Unfortunately, or now now not it’s miles now not over,” Todt stated. “It is now not indulge in the season is ending, [so] we birth up from a white share of paper. Lockdown is restful going to happen, confinement, the virus is there.
“There change into development. We’re looking ahead to a vaccine, so this might per chance maybe well well be factual for the inhabitants, factual for the planet in recount to luxuriate in that.
“Nonetheless I am clear that over the next days, we are going to have the capacity to hear somewhat a bit of of most likely changes on the a style of calendars, now now not handiest Formula 1, but on other calendars.
“If I needed to commit on a aid to roughly typical, even supposing I if truth be told feel this might per chance maybe well well be a a style of lifestyles on the aid of the COVID-19 disaster, I salvage half of next yr, in my concept, might per chance maybe well now now not be as shall we fill anticipated to fill in a typical season.”
Todt has praised Formula 1’s efforts to place collectively an emergency calendar for 2020, which integrated two races apiece in both Spielberg and Silverstone and a shock return to Istanbul Park and Imola as effectively as F1 debuts for Mugello and Portimao.
“I if truth be told feel the 2020 season change into a colossal season and with just a few creativity,” Todt added.
“Who will fill guessed one yr within the past when we met in Paris that we might per chance fill three grands prix in Italy, aid-to-aid [races] on the identical circuit in Austria, in Silverstone, authentic racing within the Bahrain Mammoth Prix, in Turkey, so that is de facto a credit to Formula 1.
“I are making an are trying to additionally highlight the just that change into played by Hunch Carey and his leadership of Formula 1, working with the FIA if you gaze what has been done to limit the of us victim of COVID-19 in motor racing.”