Formula One is facing testing times over COVID-19. The F1 World Championship, which gets underway in Melbourne on 15 March, had already lost the Chinese Grand Prix from its schedule.
"We don't know if will be able to return. If they return, we don't know if they will be able to travel to Australia," said AlphaTauri's French driver Pierre Gasly.Although the Chinese Grand Prix, originally scheduled for April 19 in Shanghai, has been postponed to a date to be announced, the inaugural Vietnam Grand Prix in Hanoi"will take place as planned" on April 5, said circuit chief Le Ngoc Chi.
"We are of course monitoring the situation closely and will notify customers and the media if there is a change," he said. However, two events planned to take place in the Vietnamese capital in the weeks before the race have already been postponed -- a marathon on March 29 as well as an international badminton tournament, which is also a qualifier for the Tokyo Olympics, slated for March 24-29.
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