F1 Gossip: Australian GP could be postponed over COVID-19 concerns

In the latest F1 gossip column, possible delay to 2021 season with Australian GP in doubt, Brown says Williams’ new owners will have to spend big for success and Chase Carey bows out from CEO role…
F1 Gossip: Australian GP could be postponed over COVID-19 concerns

- The Australian Grand Prix is likely to be postp꧋oned due to concerns over the coronavirus pandemic, a move which would delay the start of the 2021 Formula 1 season () 

- Fashion♛ brand Jack & Jones says it “takes distance” from the behaviour of new Haas F1 driver Nikita Mazepin as its partnership🎃 with the American team ended following Kevin Magnussen’s departure (Twitter)

- McLaren chief Zak Brown believes Williams’ new owners will have to invest “a lot of money” in order for the team to 💞re-emerge as a contender in Formula 1 () 

- Departing Form🐻ula 1 CEO Chase Carey believes the sport is in a stronger place now than when he succeeded Bernie Ecclestone i✅n 2017 but says it is for others to define his legacy () 

- The government of Catalonia has given the go-ahead for Spanish Grand Prix organisers to agree a contract ex𓆉tension with Formula 1 to host a round during the 2021 season () 

- Mark Webber believes Lewis Hamilton’s contract negotiations with Mercedes will have been compromised by his absence from the penultimate race of last season and t🦹he subseqeunt starring performance of George Russell () 

- Hamilton says the Black Lives Matter movement gave him “extra drive” to win his seventh world title and match Michael Sc🥂humacher’s all-time record () 

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