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 Chase Carey has suggested that two new races could be added to the calendar in 2021. Speaking in a Li⛦berty 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 po♛s🐻ed by F1 staging behind closed doors events, with fears a Silverstone round would be an “unnecessary burden” on the NHS () 

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

- Lewis Hamilton says he is “enjoying” some aspects of F1’s enforced break because i💟t has given him time to refresh and revitalis🍒e himself, with the Briton saying he feels “fresher and healthier than ever” ahead of the 2020 season ()

- And Hamilton’s former Mercedes teammate, Nico Rosberg, believes 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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