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‘Behind closed doors grands prix would go broke'
Former F1 drivers turned commentator Martin Brundle has poured cold water over suggestions F1 could begin the season behind closed doors, saying the circuits would 'go broke'. Formula 1 tried to start the 2020 season in Melbourne in front of a crowd of what could have been 350,000 over the course of the three-day grand prix weekend. However, the next race on the calendar, Bahrain, would have been a very different scenario as the Sakhir circuit had already announced that its race would be run behind closed doors. In the end neither took place. Australia was called off two hours before the start of FP2 before Formula 1 went on to postpone all the grand prix up until June's Azerbaijan race....
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