F1 Gossip: Two potential new races for 2021 calendar?

In today's Formula 1 Gossip column, Chase Carey indicates potential new venues on the cards for 2021, marshal fears over British GP safety and Lewis Hamilton is enjoying elements of the coronavirus-enforced break. 

F1 Gossip: Two potential new races for 2021?

In today's Formula 1 Gossip column, Chase Carey indicates potential new venues on the cards for 2021, marshal fears over British GP safety and Lewis Hamilton is enjoying elements of the coronavirus-enforced break. 

- Formula 1 chairman and CEO Chas♔e Carey has suggested that two new races could be added to the calendar in 2021. Speaking in a Liberty Media 💯investor call, Carey confirmed the sport’s bosses are having some “ongoing discussions with a couple of potential new races” for next year () 

- Marshals🌠 who help the British Grand Prix run smoothly are wary of the extra health and safety risks posed by F1 staging behind closed doors events, with fears a Silverstone roun📖d would be an “unnecessary burden” on the NHS () 

- Motor racing circuits in France will be able to welcome visitors again from today as French citizens cautiously begin to emerge from a strict eight-week lockdown period since Maღrch 17 [May 11] () 

- Lewis Hamilton says he is “enjoying” some asp🌼ects of F1’s enforced break because it has given him time to refresh and revitalise himself, with the Briton saying he f🐈eels “fresher and healthier than ever” ahead of the 2020 season ()

- And Hamilton’s former Mercedes team♋mate, Nico Rosberg, believ🌠es the six-time world champion’s understanding of the rules of racing is a part of what makes him such a formidable opponent. The German says Hamilton “would always manage to stay in the grey area” during wheel-to-wheel combat () 

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