A familiar story

For a year that seemed to carry a lot of hope, 2021 has not got off to the most encouraging of starts. After words like ‘cancelled’, ‘postponed’ and ‘revised’ became horribly common in our vocabulary during 2020, it’s worrying that they are starting to return in a motorsport context.

Really, it should be no surprise. The coronavirus pandemic is now at a vicious new peak in the UK, with the numbers of hospitalisations and deaths far surpassing the figures reached when the virus first took hold here