If they cancel I will ask for an F1 Pro refundā¦ Pointless having that service but no races are taking placeā¦
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Breaking News:
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Think you may well get that refund request in already. It canāt be long before the whole thing is called off after the Macca announcement.
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Yohā¦ I think itās safe to assume this F1 is cancelled this weekend.
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Oh balls.
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I am honestly surprised they kept it going as long as they have. Considering other sports have been cancelled early
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They should let all the drivers drive in F1 2019 for the fun of it.
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True should have made a call sooner, they left it very late. Also imagine they cancel it today or tomorrow. All that setup that has been done for the weekendā¦
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I get that the Ausies are losing out millions, but that is gonna happen regardless world wide and it is sad because the less popular ones will suffer the most.
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- Allegedly (they havenāt said anything publicly yet from what I can see) Haas have confirmed that the tests on their 4 team members have all returned negative, so thatās a plus.
- Ross Brawn is on record saying that FOM will choose not to run a race if any team was prevented from entering a country in order to compete. There was no mention of the same should a team decide to withdraw from a race as McLaren has.
- I have read (again, second-hand info not confirmed myself) that the hosting agreement that F1 race organisers sign with FOM/Liberty Media includes a force majeure cancellation clause that kicks in after final scrutineering is done in the hours before First Practice. Basically, from my wholly uninformed understanding of it, if a F1 host cancels the event anytime before Final Scrutineering they will be liable for penalties, costs, etc. themselves. If the event is cancelled after scrutineering, especially if stipulated by government, FOMās insurers pick up the costs.
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At best, and in an effort to save face and some revenue, I wonder if instead of cancelling the whole event outright, theyāll propose running it as a non-Championship āexhibitionā event? Give the teams the option to stick around for the weekend - āyouāre here with all this kit anyway, may as well get some bonus practice laps inā and do a reduced format race weekend.
If they did propose something like that, I wonder how many would stick around?
Itās just after 11pm in Melbourne right now. Curious to see if anything official comes out before the Aussies wake up on Friday morning in 6/7 hours time.
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I feel sad! All the guys where pumped for the event.
And it seems up to 7 hours ago poor Maccaās wanted to race
Well maybe a couple isnt
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Maybe you knew it was going to be cancelled all along? I donāt recall seeing your regular event preview post this week.
Thereās a conspiracy here
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Lol. I know I claimed to be Nostradamus not so long ago, and cancelling it is what I would have done 10 days ago if I was in charge of F1, but nahā¦ honestly, with the somewhat crappy last couple of weeks in Casa da Redd, I hadnāt given the preview posts too much thought at all. Was planning on doing something a little different with them this year but just never really got round to figuring out what exactly. Maybe now Iāll have a little spare time to do something 
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What is this spare time thing that you are talking about?
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Correctionā¦ You claimed to be Nostra Freaking Damusā¦ 
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Iām gobsmacked if this is true:
Sky Sportās Craig Slater says he spoke with a team manager immediately after their meeting. If the virus numbers in Melbourne go pear-shaped after this, nevermind through the rest of the pit lane, I doubt the AusGP, FIA and FOM will come out looking like bloody legends mate!
ETA: And typically just a few minutes later, the other British F1 team from the BBC tweet the polar opposite:
What a shitshow. Itās 2:30 in the morning there and no-one knows what the hell is happening. A bunch of team personnel are still floating around in the paddock - thereās going to be some very tired people on the pit lane. Gates are due to open to the public at 8:00.
And both are seemingly confident enough in their sources to have posted news articles to their respective websites:
And still not a single official word from the race organizers or F1 Management or Liberty Media or the FIA to refute or confirm either story.
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And now the Sky Sports post has been taken down and independent F1 correspondent Craig Medland and Jon Noble at Autosport are confirming the BBC pitch - that the race will be cancelled.
Iām chewing through my data and my phone is going flat trying to follow things as I wait out load shedding. No more from me until itās official.
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