THE F1 COVID THREAD: Will GP be cancelled?

[Skam85]

I live in Melbourne and am still optimistic the race will happen

[E.B]

Originally Posted by Skam85

I live in Melbourne and am still optimistic the race will happen

So do I, I have had jab#1 and im not so confident. On account of the slow vaccine rollout. They wont lift restrictions until we are much more advanced with the jabs, which by all accounts from those that know wont be in time for the GP. My thoughts.

[Casper]

I look forward to having to eat my words if it does run.

Originally Posted by Skam85

I live in Melbourne and am still optimistic the race will happen

[chavez]

Originally Posted by Casper

I look forward to having to eat my words if it does run.

Without 14 days quarantine for the whole F1 circus it ain't happening.

I also look forward to eating my words too.

[billy bleach]

So when the UK is overrun following the European Football Cup every politician in the World will put the shutters up.

[Alan52]

Originally Posted by Skam85

I live in Melbourne and am still optimistic the race will happen

If you see today’s reports that the Australian Open tennis is moving to Doha next year because the players will not do the 14 day quarantine again you might realise your admirable optimism is misplaced.
Late 2022 is the most optimistic time frame I can see.

[Casper]

I think the AGP spin doctors were getting in before this announcement

https://www.smh.com.au/national/fede...12-p57rdn.html

Tennis Australia is living in the same dreamland that F1 appears to be living in. The last effort virtually bankrupted them and I recall figures of + $80 million AUD being mentioned to run the last open.

https://www.smh.com.au/sport/tennis/...17-p57sio.html

Virgin airlines are saying that deaths are worth open borders....that will go down well with a government facing an election next year.

https://www.smh.com.au/national/virg...17-p57sn2.html

[broadrun96]

Wow, hope her savings aren't tied up in Virgin stock cause wow. I mean the little guy can think that at home and impact 4 people maybe, but as a business policy? That seems a bit crass at best

[Alan52]

Originally Posted by broadrun96

Wow, hope her savings aren't tied up in Virgin stock cause wow. I mean the little guy can think that at home and impact 4 people maybe, but as a business policy? That seems a bit crass at best

You would think that someone in a position like that would be smart enough to think before they open their mouths.Apparently not in this case.
There are ways you could push for opening up borders without specifically bringing death into the conversation.

[Adam43]

I thought this, but didn’t know how to respond without being crass, so I didn’t! She should have seen that as an option.

You could argue that flying planes already considers the people might die (low chance) verses overall benefit. But it would be a little insensitive to bang on about that.

[ScotsBrutesFan]

No direct flights from UK to Austria from 1st June.

It won’t cause a cancellation given teams are in France the week before but could give a logistics problem for teams sending out additional parts.

[bathurst77]

Hats will be consumed if melbourne goes ahead in 2020.
The virus is spreading again(mind you we are talking dozens not thousands or more), the vax roll out is slow. The borders are still closed.

An election is due within 6 months after the race date. It would look bad if the govt bans people travelling, and bans dances, concerts and even singing in church, or close churches again (PM Morrison is a Hillsong fanatic) but let these multi million dollar "playboys" in for a car race.

[Casper]

Originally Posted by bathurst77

Hats will be consumed if melbourne goes ahead in 2020.
The virus is spreading again(mind you we are talking dozens not thousands or more), the vax roll out is slow. The borders are still closed.

An election is due within 6 months after the race date. It would look bad if the govt bans people travelling, and bans dances, concerts and even singing in church, or close churches again (PM Morrison is a Hillsong fanatic) but let these multi million dollar "playboys" in for a car race.

Scotty from marketing will make sure it does not happen in 2022 either because the elections will be around that time as well.

[ScotsBrutesFan]

As commented earlier, about Austria, now France has 7 day quarantine announcement ...

The French government announced that from 31 May, anyone arriving from the UK must quarantine for seven days.

The French government announced that from 31 May, anyone arriving from the UK must quarantine for seven days.

[sizzle]

Victoria is in a 5 day lock down as of midnight tonight.

If would suggest there is Buckley's and none of this event happening

[E.B]

Originally Posted by sizzle

Victoria is in a 5 day lock down as of midnight tonight.

If would suggest there is Buckley's and none of this event happening

Its actually 7 days.
Restricted to 5 klms from home and only food shopping, medical treatment (and vaccinations), authorised work / education, authorised caregiving and exercise
No home visitors other than one 'intimate partner'.
No visiting friends / family.
Masks everywhere except at home.

Agreed re Buckley's chance of the AGP in November.

[S griffin]

Yet Australia is on the green list in the UK for countries you can visit.

[chunterer]

Originally Posted by S griffin

Yet Australia is on the green list in the UK for countries you can visit.

But the Grand Prix is still not going to happen this year.

[Casper]

Originally Posted by S griffin

Yet Australia is on the green list in the UK for countries you can visit.

You can visit but you will be required to quarantine in a nominated facility and that will cost about $3000 AUD and you have to line up for a spot to become available in those nominated facilities, no spot no entry unless you are wealthy and can demonstrate an alternative that is acceptable. A lot of film stars are working in and moving to Oz to live and most of them do this. Also this is a big country so individual state embargos can happen but the UK govt most probably can't get their minds around that. West Australia recently had a big dummy spit and refused to allow any entry into the state because the state and the Federal Govt were bickering over quarantine facilities and who was going to stump up for the costs involved and what sites could be used. WA wanted to use an existing RAAF facility, the RAAF went nuts and the Feds backed them.

[E.B]

Originally Posted by S griffin

Yet Australia is on the green list in the UK for countries you can visit.

More relevant is that foreigners are not allowed into Australia. Who visits Australia is not anything to do with the UK Government. The UK is not on our greenlist, far from it. In fact the only ones effectively with a green light are returning Australians. If they can get flights and get a place in the deliberately limited quarantine facilities here. Limited so our Health Service does not get overwhelmed with COVID treatment.
We have gone into lockdown because we have had 3 dozen community transmissions this week, and are serious about stemming that number. With all respects if the UK had numbers like that Boris would be claiming victory instead of fighting off claims of his gross incompetence over COVID and his government's management of the pandemic in the UK.

[Casper]

E. B. beat me to it, I was about to edit my post to say that the Govt is not handing out visitor visas so don't bother applying. The only country that has had some access to Australia and Australia to it is New Zealand and that is an off and on situation. The reason for that is that half of NZ nationals live in Oz. There is a joke that goes around and requests that the last person leaving NZ has to make sure the lights are turned off. Apologies to anyone that might offend but they have plenty of Aussie jokes as well.

[S griffin]

We envy you guys down under. Both Australia and NZ have shown how to handle a pandemic, unlike our government

[Alan52]

Originally Posted by S griffin

We envy you guys down under. Both Australia and NZ have shown how to handle a pandemic, unlike our government

Unfortunately they have been completely clueless/negligent on how to handle a vaccination program and how to take their constitutional duty for quarantine.

[bella]

Originally Posted by S griffin

We envy you guys down under. Both Australia and NZ have shown how to handle a pandemic, unlike our government

speak for yourself. i'm sure the thousands of aussie citizens locked out of their own country and subject to a pretty unpleasant procedure to get a flight home would disagree too, as someone else said.

Originally Posted by ScotsBrutesFan

As commented earlier, about Austria, now France has 7 day quarantine announcement ...

The French government announced that from 31 May, anyone arriving from the UK must quarantine for seven days..

they're playing with fire with this. atm there's no exemptions for sport, and f1 won't have that. likewise i believe austria are being a bit awkward as well.

[chillibowl]

Did they use a nearby airfield to the Ring as a nearby airfield as a means of controlling entry into the biosphere last year?

Could be confusing that with somewhere else though.

Also dont know if they will allow fans or just let people party on that mountain trail overlooking the curcuit again. Covid aside, that looks to be a pretty neat overlook.