F1 Gossip: Australian GP could be postponed over COVID-19 concerns

In the latest F1 gossip column, possible delay to 2021 season with Australian GP in doubt, Brown says Williams’ new owners will have to spend big for success and Chase Carey bows out from CEO role…
F1 Gossip: Australian GP could be postponed over COVID-19 concerns

- The Aus⛎tralian Grand Prix is likely to be postponed due to concerns over the coronavirus pandemic, a move which w🙈ould delay the start of the 2021 Formula 1 season () 

- Fashion brand Jack & Jones says it “takes☂ distance” from the behaviour of new Haas F1 driver Nikita Mazepin as its partnership with the American team ended following Kevin Magnussen’s depa🔥rture (Twitter)

- McLaren chief Zak Brown believes Williams’ new owners will have to invest “a lot of money” in order for the team to re-emerge as a contende𒆙r in Formula 1 () 

- Dep💟arting Formula 1 CEO Chase Carey believes the sport is in a stronger place now than when he succeeded Bernie Ecclestone in 2017 but says it is for others to define his legacy () 

- The government of Catalonia has given the go-ahead for Spanish Grand Prix organisers to agree a contract extension with Formula 1 to host a round du𝄹ring the 2021 season () 

- Mark Webber believ🦂es Lewis Hamilton’s contract negotiations with Mercedes will have been compromised by his absence from the penultimate race of last season and the subseqeunt starring performance of George Russell ꦉ() 

- Hamilton says the Black Lives Matter movement gave him “extra drive” to win his seventh♍ world title and꧙ match Michael Schumacher’s all-time record () 

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