China GP off as Shanghai bans 'all sports events'
China's grand prix in April looks set to be scrapped completely.
At least 560 people have now died of the coronavirus, whose epicentre is the city of Wuhan which is about 800 kilometres from Formula 1 host Shanghai International Circuit.
F1's strategy group met to discuss the coronavirus situation on Wednesday, but the discussions look to have been largely unnecessary.
That is because the Shanghai Sports Federation has now recommended the city suspends "all sports events until the epidemic is over".
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Might there be a possibility of going to Hockenheim instead for this date, or is it too late for such a move? After China was the Dutch Grand Prix, so its not like you're throwing a huge wrench into the logistics of the schedule and you also have an established site and support base for the race.
at this point any rescheduling for 2020' appears higly unlikely (commercial and logistic aspect), but even then, Hockenheim dropped out because of its financial inability to host Formula 1 Grand Prix - not to make place for other venues in the calendar, unfortunately...
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