F1 cancelled this year?
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Maybe we will get a British GP this year afterall, if this story is correct.
https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/boris-johnson-p...
https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/boris-johnson-p...
ArnageWRC said:
I hope it's not an exemption just for F1......
If Boris wants it, I would guess it's because he has a level of faith that F1 will 'get it right' and form something of a template for all other revenue generating sports series.I doubt that he just wants F1. He'll want ALL major commercial sport to resume. Obviously one sport has to dip it's toe in to the water first... frankly F1 is a good choice as it's world renowned at high speed and effective problem solving.
TheDeuce said:
If Boris wants it, I would guess it's because he has a level of faith that F1 will 'get it right' and form something of a template for all other revenue generating sports series.
I doubt that he just wants F1. He'll want ALL major commercial sport to resume. Obviously one sport has to dip it's toe in to the water first... frankly F1 is a good choice as it's world renowned at high speed and effective problem solving.
Yep, F1 has been incredibly proactive and actually pretty positive throughout this. Always looking for solutions, they seem to have come up with a fairly comprehensive and watertight plan as to how they can hold a double header at Silverstone. A bonus is that they won't get people 'standing outside the stadium' during the event (a few might look for a way in, but nothing like we're likely to see with football). For a bit of icing on the cake a significant number of staff spent their spring designing and building equipment for the NHS.I doubt that he just wants F1. He'll want ALL major commercial sport to resume. Obviously one sport has to dip it's toe in to the water first... frankly F1 is a good choice as it's world renowned at high speed and effective problem solving.
The road back certainly seems to have been handled better than Premiership football so far, for example.
Eric Mc said:
Doesn't make it any better or positive - if what you claim is true.
Certainly not. Although the budget caps may prove good for the sport.As for what I claim.. no shortage of team principals who have said budget caps will equal staff cuts. Seems fairly straight cut to me.
I do feel sorry for anyone our of a job right now as getting another job is going to be extremely tough for a good while. At least a job a person might actually want to do.
Eric Mc said:
TheDeuce said:
We knew that was coming for most teams. Albeit, the process being sped up by harsher budget caps than thought and the huge revenue loss this year..
Doesn't make it any better or positive - if what you claim is true. TheDeuce said:
Eric Mc said:
I don't think it's the budget cap that is causing 25% redundancies in the company right now.
As I said, me either. It would have been but other events have overtaken it.Did the government actually buy any of their respirators?
Eric Mc said:
McLaren have stated that it's a combination of no F1 so far this year and a collapse in road car sales.
Did the government actually buy any of their respirators?
I think they cancelled all mass qty orders from the various teams. There was no overall shortage in the end.Did the government actually buy any of their respirators?
The teams still got paid for the R&D effort etc.
The no F1 thing must be so costly. Impossible to know the agreements each team has with each sponsor but it's a certainty that reduced races/exposure will equate to a relative drop in sponsor income.
Road car sales.. virtually none existent for the last few months and then sure to be a handful of slow years to follow. By which time road car manufacturers will also be facing new waves of emmisions legislation and penalties.
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