2020 Formula One Season Could Be Extended into 2021

The current state of uncertainty across the world is making it very difficult to make plans. As the Coronavirus has forced the cancellation, indefinite postponement, and rescheduling of many sporting activities, picking a new date seems impossible because no one knows when it would be safe to hold sporting activities again.

The Formula 1 has cancelled and postponed 8 races this year already, including the one that was supposed to start it for the season, the Australian Grand Prix.

The cancelled or postponed events came without a new date because it seems almost impossible to set one at the moment.

Ferrari boss, Matteo Binotto, has expressed that some races could take place next year. With the original calendar giving 29th of November as the last race of the season taking place in Abu Dhabi, and the estimation by the chairman of the Formula 1, Chase Carey, that the new season could start during the summer, it would only make sense to have some races into next year.

According to Binotto, “we are assessing various ideas – races closer together, doing two or three races in January.” He mentioned all the teams were in talks with Formula 1 and that they had “decided to give complete freedom to Carey and the FIA to put things together.”

This means that the Formula 1 and FIA would be allowed to set the calendar how they deem fit, even when it is not so convenient for the teams, but the teams are willing to yield because, according to Binotto, “these are decisive moment.”

The Formula 1 is doing all it can to see that teams are not affected by the pandemic, especially in their finances, since they are not expected to make as much this season if they make at all.

For that, they had earlier agreed that the regulations that were supposed to take effect next year has been moved to 2022 and cars can retain their chassis in 2021, in a bid to save cost.

Written by: Leon Osamor