Canadian, United States, Mexico City and Brazilian Grand Prix Cancelled! Meanwhile the return of Imola, Nurburgring and the Portuguese Grand Prix!

It was confirmed on Friday (24/7/20), this seasons Canadian, United States, Mexico City and Brazilian Grand Prix has been all cancelled altogether due to the coronavirus pandemic.



The Canadian Grand Prix was set to be the ninth round of the season, on June 14th, United States Grand Prix was set to be the nineteenth round of the season, on October 25th; the Mexico City Grand Prix was set to be the twentieth round of the season, on 1 November 1st; and the Brazilian Grand Prix was set to be the twenty-first round of the season on November 15th.

The race in Canada is off due to country has local restrictions and travel rules that make impossible to hold a race.

While races in United States, Mexico and Brazil cannot be held because the high infection rates rising in the three countries, F1 bosses believe it would be irresponsible to hold races there.

Meaning fourteen of the first twenty-first races originally in Australia, Bahrain, Vietnam, China, Holland, Monaco, Azerbaijan, Canada, France, Singapore, Japan, United States, Mexico and Brazil had already been postponed or called off due to the pandemic.

Coronavirus, officially named Covid-19, that has killed over 630,000 people, with nearly 16,000,000, cases reported.

Meanwhile, this was also confirmed, Formula 1 has added three more races to its 2020 calendar taking the total number of races confirmed so far to 13.

Nurburgring, last time held a Grand Prix since 2013 will host a race as the Eifel Grand Prix (don't know why called it the German, European or Luxenbourg Grand Prix as before) on 11th October

Autódromo Internacional do Algarve, Portimão on the Algarve, will follow on 25th October as the Portuguese Grand Prix; meant a Grand Prix will be held in Portugal for the first time since 1996.

Then on the 1st November, Imola in Italy will host a Grand Prix for the first time since 2006, as the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix (why not call it San Marino or Dino Ferrari Grand Prix, its easy!) making it first time since 1982 that three rounds of a Grand Prix season has held in one country.



Meanwhile, the rest of the season is expected to conclude with two races in Bahrain and one in Abu Dhabi in November and December.

And F1 is working on one or two races in Asia in mid-November.

With the Vietnamese Grand Prix in Hanoi, which had been due to make its debut as an F1 venue in April, is expected to hold a race, and there is a strong possibility of a return to Sepang for the Malaysian Grand Prix.



Stay safe everyone.