News Details

Westacott: Not a chance Australian Grand Prix happens without fans

The season-opening Formula 1 race in Melbourne will proceed as planned this week and there is ‘no chance' fans will be excluded because of coronavirus fears, Australian Grand Prix Corporation chief Andrew Westacott said on Monday. The fourth round of the championship in Shanghai in April has been postponed, while organisers of the Bahrain Grand Prix said on Sunday that their race would go ahead without spectators March 22. Westacott, however, said there was no prospect at all of Australia following suit with Sunday's race at Albert Park, especially after a record crowd packed into Melbourne Cricket Ground for Sunday's Women's T20 World Cup final. 'Not a chance,' Westacott told SEN...
Full Story »
4y ago from GrandPrix247.com 0
Share

You May Also Be Interested In...

‘Australian Grand Prix will go ahead as planned'

A statement from Australian Grand Prix CEO Andrew Westacott has confirmed...
4y ago from FormulaSpy.com

Officials: Australian Grand Prix still a go

The 2020 Formula 1 season is still set to start in ten days at the...
4y ago from GrandPrix247.com

AGPC in contact with F1 twice daily amid coronavirus...

The 2019 Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix The Australian Grand Prix...
4y ago from SpeedCafe.com

Australian GP boss ensures race is still on… for now

Australian GP boss Andrew Westacott expects the opening round of the F1...
4y ago from F1i.com

Elsewhere On The Network

Popular On MGPToday.com

Frustrated Jorge Martin says Enea Bastianini Misano...

A frustrated Jorge Martin felt that Enea Bastianini's last-lap Misano...
18h ago from MotorsportWeek.c...

Popular On IndyCarToday.com

Rinus VeeKay parts with ECR after five IndyCar seasons...

Rinus VeeKay confirmed on Monday that he will not continue as a driver...
17h ago from MotorsportWeek.c...

IndyCar announces new charter system for team owners

The NTT IndyCar Series has announced the establishment of a new charter...
21h ago from MotorsportWeek.c...

Popular On TotalWRC.com

Popular On GunnersToday.com

Arteta: 'Dark arts' claims are opinions, I prefer facts

Mikel Arteta has hit back at accusations of "dark arts" in...
52m ago from SkySports.com

How things looked in the English Premier League when...

A look into how the football landscape, especially the EPL was when Bolton...
51m ago from SoccerSouls.com

Comments

Hottest News

Horner heard McLaren's message to Norris: "That was...

Christian Horner has described one of McLaren's... Read More »
2h ago from GPBlog.com

Mansell's black-flag breach and ban

On this day in 1989, Nigel Mansell made sure F1... Read More »
52m ago from F1i.com

Recent News


2014 GPToday.com
GPToday.com is not responsible for the news headlines and associated descriptions and images it indexes, the content of externally linked sites or the comments & postings of its users.

This website is unofficial and is not associated in any way with the Formula One group of companies. F1, FORMULA ONE, FORMULA 1, FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, GRAND PRIX and related marks are trade marks of Formula One Licensing B.V.