9:00 AM ET F1 can still manage to complete a 17 or 18-race season this year despite the delays caused by the coronavirus pandemic, according to managing director Ross Brawn. As with sporting events and series across the globe, coronavirus has halted F1’s season. The Australian Grand Prix was supposed to be held on March

4:22 AM ET MELBOURNE, Australia — Full refunds will be offered to all Australian Grand Prix ticket holders after the season-opening race was cancelled in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Formula One, the FIA and the Australian Grand Prix Corporation (AGPC) reached the verdict on Friday morning, announcing the decision to call off the

11:04 PM ET MELBOURNE, Australia — It may have taken longer than anyone ever expected, or had hoped, but in the end the correct call was made with Formula One, the FIA and the Australian Grand Prix Corporation coming together to cancel the season-opening Australian Grand Prix amid the coronavirus pandemic. 1 Related Doubt was

7:12 AM ET Formula One has postponed its upcoming races in Bahrain and Vietnam a day after it was forced to cancel its season opening Australian Grand Prix. 1 Related The decision has been made “to ensure health and safety of staff, participants and fans”. F1 expects to start the season at end of May,

4:32 AM ET The first race of the new Formula One season has been cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic. On Thursday, a member of the McLaren F1 team tested positive for COVID-19, leading to a decision from F1 and the FIA to call off this weekend’s Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne. The following day,

2:30 AM ET After several weeks of concern and 12 hours of complete confusion, the Australian Grand Prix was cancelled shortly after 10 A.M on Friday. Six hours earlier it had been clear the race would not go ahead as planned, yet, in a farcical turn of events, fans were allowed to arrive and queue

8:02 AM ET Formula One has called off Sunday’s Australian Grand Prix, the opening race of its 2020 season, after a McLaren team member tested positive for coronavirus on Thursday evening. McLaren confirmed a member of its team had entered quarantine after contracting the virus, leaving the British team no option but to pull out

7:24 AM ET McLaren has withdrawn from this weekend’s Australian Grand Prix after one of its team members contracted coronavirus. The British team tested a member of staff for the flu-like virus on Thursday and confirmed the result had been positive. McLaren says the team member immediately entered self-isolation as soon as they showed symptoms

6:15 AM ET Sebastian Vettel has continued the tradition of naming his Formula One cars, christening his 2020 Ferrari ‘Lucilla’. The four-time world champion confirmed the name ahead of this weekend’s Australian Grand Prix, the opening race of the 2020 season. Alexis Nunes returns as Nate Saunders and Laurence Edmondson look ahead to the new

3:24 AM ET MELBOURNE, Australia — An online petition to cancel the 2020 Australian Grand Prix amid rising fears about the coronavirus has already garnered 11,000 signatures. Doubt continues to surround the season-opening Formula One race in Melbourne, particularly after eight team personnel showed signs of the COVID-19 infection between Wednesday morning and Thursday afternoon