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 postponed due to concerns over𒆙 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 dri🦋ver 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 Formula 1 ﷺCEO Chase Carey believes the sport is in a stronger 🔯place now than when he succeeded Bernie Ecclestone in 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 extension with꧋ Formula 1 to host a round during the 2021 seasoܫn () 

- Mark Webber believes Lewis Hamilton’s contract negotiations with Mercedes ꦍwill have been compromised by his absence from the penultimate race of last season and the 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 Schumacher’s all-time record () 

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