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Well done F1, but what next?

The 2020 Australian Grand Prix was cancelled on 13 March. Nine months later, on 13 December, the season concluded in Abu Dhabi. In between, Formula 1 reorganised an entire calendar, with only nine races from the original keeping their places and just three taking place on their pre-COVID assigned dates.

As F1’s regulator, the FIA swung into action “really at the start of April”, F1 race director Michael Masi tells Autosport, to work on a plan to get motorsport going again. It took World Health Organisation

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