THE F1 COVID THREAD: Will GP be cancelled?

[crmalcolm]

Originally Posted by Aysedasi

Proof of vaccination or a negative test. In advance? Or on the gate? If the latter, there could be even worse queues than usual......

The article says 'be in possession of a negative test for Covid' - which I would take to be as a test prior to the event, not on arrival.

[Anyopenroad]

Originally Posted by chillibowl

what i am more curious about is will they actually get 140k people to go in only a couple of weeks?

things are getting back to 'normal' but are things really moving that fast back to normality in the UK?

I’m certain they will. There was a virtual queue to get onto the website today. And many of the grandstands were showing limited availability even before today.

[chillibowl]

Originally Posted by Anyopenroad

I’m certain they will. There was a virtual queue to get onto the website today. And many of the grandstands were showing limited availability even before today.

thats awesome!

[bella]

i love how they sold silverstone as being great for a test event because it's almost entirely private cars that turn up rather than using public transport.

then have the park and ride system where people are crammed onto buses

[Adam43]

Fortunately the local camp site can open to allow my mates to go. They’ve had to cancel the concert that they were going to have in the campsite though as that would be classed as an event and not a test one.

[chunterer]

Istanbul confirmed Oct 3rd.

Excellent news.

[S griffin]

That’s good news, let’s hope cases are down by then

In other news the Japanese MotoGP has been cancelled, so that doesn’t bode well for the F1 GP

[chunterer]

Japan dropping out would poss mean another Euro round coming in, which would be a lot easier on the teams as it was going to be 3 races in 3 weekends!

Russian - Turkey - Japan 1 week apart. Bit tough.

Whereas Turkey then onto a another possible European (Spanish/Italian?) replacement would be a bit easier before the 2 week gap to Austin

[Adam43]

Originally Posted by S griffin

That’s good news, let’s hope cases are down by then

In other news the Japanese MotoGP has been cancelled, so that doesn’t bode well for the F1 GP

Any other significant sporting events in Japan?

[bjohnsonsmith]

Originally Posted by Adam43

Any other significant sporting events in Japan?

I read something about the last year's Olympic Games taking place this year.

[Adam43]

Crikey! Someone should have mentioned.

[billy bleach]

Originally Posted by crmalcolm

The ' post hoc ergo propter hoc' fallacy? Cases were rising before the G7 summit.

BREAKING: Andrew Marr reveals he’s just had a ‘nasty’ bout of covid despite being fully vaccinated, and believes he caught it at the G7 summit in Cornwall. #marr

Enough said

[S griffin]

But the number of people with Covid ending up in hospital is going down, so the vaccines are doing their job

[crmalcolm]

Originally Posted by billy bleach

BREAKING: Andrew Marr reveals he’s just had a ‘nasty’ bout of covid despite being fully vaccinated, and believes he caught it at the G7 summit in Cornwall. #marr

Enough said

BREAKING: A sample size of one is used by scientists to determine absolute proof that - following vaccination, a person can catch C-19 and be ill for a few days and then recover within a week to the point that they return to full work.

If we made decisions about how to handle the pandemic from one journalist's experience we'd be in a very bad place.

[Gerard C]

Originally Posted by crmalcolm

If we made decisions about how to handle the pandemic from one journalist's experience we'd be in a very bad place.

What about adding a politician… or two?

[Anyopenroad]

Originally Posted by billy bleach

BREAKING: Andrew Marr reveals he’s just had a ‘nasty’ bout of covid despite being fully vaccinated, and believes he caught it at the G7 summit in Cornwall.

There is a very long list of diseases, conditions and ailments which can be unpleasant even for healthy people. The important fact about Marr's story is that he recovered after a few days in bed feeling lousy. That's what vaccines achieve. No-one has ever promised that a vaccine is complete protection against infection. Complete immunity is not possible. But vaccines reduce the risk of infection, reduce the severity if you do catch it and reduce the likelihood of you passing it on (because the viral load is so much lower).

We have now reached the point where the risk from Covid for a vaccinated person at an event like Silverstone is probably less than the risk from driving there, or falling down the steps in a stand, or getting food poisoning from a burger van, or any of the other myriad tiny risks inherent in going about life.

[billy bleach]

Originally Posted by Anyopenroad

There is a very long list of diseases, conditions and ailments

We have now reached the point where the risk from Covid for a vaccinated person at an event like Silverstone is probably less than the risk from driving there, or falling down the steps in a stand, or getting food poisoning from a burger van, or any of the other myriad tiny risks inherent in going about life.

The bloke who fell out of the Terrace at Wembley would probably agree!!

[Casper]

The latest news from Oz is far from good with Covid having taken off again nationwide despite all the attempts to prevent that happening. I think this absolutely kills any remote chance of the AGP in November.

https://www.smh.com.au/

[Skam85]

Originally Posted by Casper

The latest news from Oz is far from good with Covid having taken off again nationwide despite all the attempts to prevent that happening. I think this absolutely kills any remote chance of the AGP in November.

https://www.smh.com.au/

Yes even my eternal optimism about having the AGP has almost completely faded.

[chavez]

Originally Posted by Skam85

Yes even my eternal optimism about having the AGP has almost completely faded.

You were the one person keeping the glimmer of hope alive.

If your eternal optimism is lost then all hope is lost too.

[tux]

Problems at Silverstone? Porsche have just cancelled their Supercup round scheduled on the GP weekend due to the pandemic.

[Greem]

Originally Posted by tux

Problems at Silverstone? Porsche have just cancelled their Supercup round scheduled on the GP weekend due to the pandemic.

That's because the teams may not be able to travel from Germany to England and then back into Europe without quarantine.

[billy bleach]

Originally Posted by Greem

That's because the teams may not be able to travel from Germany to England and then back into Europe without quarantine.

England v Scotland …2000 positive tests……

[crmalcolm]

Originally Posted by billy bleach

England v Scotland …2000 positive tests……

Or to give a more accurate detail:

'Nearly 2,000 Covid-19 cases in Scotland have been linked to football fans watching Euro 2020 fixtures.

Of the 1,991 cases registered by Public Health Scotland (PHS), two-thirds said they had travelled to London to watch England vs Scotland on June 18.

A total of 397 of these were fans at the game at Wembley Stadium.

A PHS report said 55 cases were linked to a fanzone in Glasgow [at which 6,000 people attended], while 38 and 37 respectively were linked to Scotland vs Croatia and Scotland vs Czech Republic at Hampden Park.'

'these Euro 2020 cases are part of the 32,539 cases that were reported to the Test & Protect Case Management System during this period [June 11-28]'

[Anyopenroad]

Originally Posted by billy bleach

England v Scotland …2000 positive tests……

That's not accurate. The story is that there are thought to be around 2,000 cases associated with the game. Around 400 of those are people who had tickets for the game. That's not the same as saying that there were 2,000 positive tests from the game, which is what is implied by your post.