F1 is back! Includes two Austrian and British Grand Prixs'

It was confirmed on Tuesday (2/6/20), the 2020 Formula 1 season will start in Austria on 5th July, the first of a run of eight races in Europe.



An F1 statement said the championship would begin across three consecutive weekends, two Grand Prixs' in Austria on 5th and 12th July (as the Styrian Grand Prix)for the first time two Grand Prixs held in Austria in the same season and a third in Hungary on the 19th July moving forward from its original date.

There will then be a two-week break before two consecutive races in Britain which has been pushed back a month on the 2nd and 9th August (as the 70th Anniversary Grand Prix) making the first time Grand Prix will be held in Britain twice in a season since 1993, and then the postponed Spanish Grand Prix on August 16th, then a another two-week break for the Belgium and Italy on the 30th August and 6th September.

All will be run behind closed doors with participants following guidelines to minimise the spread of Covid-19 (coronavirus).

Plans for the remainder of the season were not announced, because of the uncertainty of the coronavirus situation in the various countries that would have made up the original schedule.

However, F1 said it had "an expectation of having a total of 15-18 races before we complete our season in December".

Coronavirus, officially named Covid-19, that has killed nearly 380,000 people, with over 6,300,000, cases reported.

Stay safe everyone. F1 will be racing soon.