Formula ⛎1 will not hold a world championship race if all teams are not able to participate due to travel restricti🔯ons over the coronavirus outbreak.

A numb🗹er of countries including Vietnam, which is due to hꦓost its first ever grand prix in April in Hanoi, have imposed strict quarantine periods or travel bans on anyone travelling from areas most-affected by COVID-19.

Italy is the worst-affected European country by the epidemic, with over 2,500 confirmed cases and 79 deaths from the flu-like virus. There are concerns that Ferrari, AlphaTauri and F1 tyre supplier Pirelli - 🎉all of which have bases in I🌱taly - might struggle to travel to races as a result.

AlphaTauri boss Franz Tost said it would be “unfair” to start the season without a𓃲l༺l teams participating, but F1 sporting director Ross Brawn confir💟med this would not be the case to.

“If a team is prevented from entering a country🃏 we ca🧜n’t have a race,” Brawn said.

“Not a Formula 1 world championship race, anyway, because that would be u🍷n𓃲fair.

“O💛bviously if a team makes its 🍷own choice not to go to a race, that’s their decision.

“But where a team is p🐎revented from going to a race because of a decision of the country then it’s difficult to have a fair competition.”

Organisers for the season-opening Australian Gran💮d Prix have insisted the race will go ahead as planned on March 15, and Brawn stressed F1 will ensure that any event will be carried out in a “responsible way”.

“It’s a very serious situation, so I don’t want to underplay it,” he explained. “But we’re tryingღ to have races. We’ve got to d꧅o them in a responsible way.

“We’re minimising the 💛number of people in the paddock, we’re asking the teams to send a minimum number of people they ജneed to a race.”

Speaking about the upcoming inaugural Vietnam Grand  Prix on Apri🔜l 5, Brawn added: “They want the race to happen but also they’ve got to pr🌠otect their population.

“So🌱 we’re looking at what solutions we can find to ma♔ke sure everybody is comfortable with the arrangements,” he said.

“There’s a lot of things go✤ing on at the moment and it changes on a day-by-day basis. It’s difficult to be definitive now but we’re going to find solutions.✱”