The official Formula One and General Motorsport Thread for the 2020 season!

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Who will be the 2020 F1 WDC and WCC?

Lewis Hamilton
26
41%
Valtteri Bottas
0
No votes
Sebastian Vettel
1
2%
Charles LecLerc
0
No votes
Max Verstappen
3
5%
Alexander Albon
0
No votes
Carlos Sainz
0
No votes
Lando Norris
1
2%
Daniel Ricciardo
0
No votes
Esteban Ocon
0
No votes
Daniil Kyvat
1
2%
Pierre Gasly
0
No votes
Sergio Perez
0
No votes
Lance Stroll
0
No votes
Kimi Raikkonen
0
No votes
Antonio Giovinazzi
0
No votes
Romain Grosjean
0
No votes
Kevin Magnussen
0
No votes
George Russell
2
3%
Nicholas Latifi
0
No votes
Mercedes
24
38%
Ferrari
1
2%
Red Bull Racing
0
No votes
McLaren
0
No votes
Renault
0
No votes
Alpha Tauri
0
No votes
Racing Point
0
No votes
Alfa Romeo
0
No votes
Haas
0
No votes
Williams
4
6%
 
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PostRe: The official Formula One and General Motorsport Thread for the 2020 season!
by KK » Fri Mar 13, 2020 10:12 am

floydfreak wrote:

What’s Vince Cable doing there in the middle.

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PostRe: The official Formula One and General Motorsport Thread for the 2020 season!
by Victor Mildew » Fri Mar 13, 2020 10:18 am

Id love to see a reduced season to see what the top teams pull put performance wise when the points available far less. 8 engines to last 8 races? Turn those strawberry floaters right up and I'm actually going for a decent result rather than just cruise around.

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PostRe: The official Formula One and General Motorsport Thread for the 2020 season!
by Robbo-92 » Fri Mar 13, 2020 11:16 am

Even if they just had 12 races they should be good to go flat out a lot more with their 3 power units rather than stretching them thin to 22.

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PostRe: The official Formula One and General Motorsport Thread for the 2020 season!
by floydfreak » Fri Mar 13, 2020 11:38 am

Victor Mildew wrote:Id love to see a reduced season to see what the top teams pull put performance wise when the points available far less. 8 engines to last 8 races? Turn those strawberry floaters right up and I'm actually going for a decent result rather than just cruise around.


I agree they should do that for one race at least seeing as it won't be a full season

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PostRe: The official Formula One and General Motorsport Thread for the 2020 season!
by BOR » Fri Mar 13, 2020 1:57 pm

Bahrain and Vietnam GP cancelled.

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PostRe: The official Formula One and General Motorsport Thread for the 2020 season!
by Vermilion » Fri Mar 13, 2020 2:26 pm

Not surprised about Bahrain, it was only a week away after all.

Hopefully by the time Spain comes round, the worst will be over and things will be able to get underway again.

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PostRe: The official Formula One and General Motorsport Thread for the 2020 season!
by Robbo-92 » Fri Mar 13, 2020 2:39 pm

I guess they’ll reassess after what would have been the Vietnamese Grand Prix and make a decision then. Street tracks I can see being called off completely unless the situation improves a lot, I suppose a lot of the tracks can sustain the teams on site and they can run behind closed doors but the ones where the tracks are in very close proximity to cities may still have to be cancelled/postponed indefinitely.

In other news the WRC is still going on this weekend, suppose that has the benefit of not that many fans compared to F1 and what fans do attend will be spread over the course’s route rather than all in a relatively small area.

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PostRe: The official Formula One and General Motorsport Thread for the 2020 season!
by floydfreak » Fri Mar 13, 2020 8:34 pm

so with races across the Motorsport calendar which were supposed to happen this weekend or in the coming weekend and the coming few months what races will you be watching till F1 starts and other series begin later in the year.

I will finish watching the Daytona 24 hours and my plan is too watch some old Nascar races from the late 80's and 90's as well as watch the 2009 Sebring 12 hours as that race has a great battle between Audi & Peugeot

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PostRe: The official Formula One and General Motorsport Thread for the 2020 season!
by Robbo-92 » Fri Mar 13, 2020 9:45 pm

twitter.com/jeanericvergne/status/1238533484974682112



Not sure if anyone else will be watching but in the absence of an actual grand prix it might be a laugh to watch. 5:45 pm on Sunday if anyone is interested.

floydfreak wrote:so with races across the Motorsport calendar which were supposed to happen this weekend or in the coming weekend and the coming few months what races will you be watching till F1 starts and other series begin later in the year.

I will finish watching the Daytona 24 hours and my plan is too watch some old Nascar races from the late 80's and 90's as well as watch the 2009 Sebring 12 hours as that race has a great battle between Audi & Peugeot


Be watching the WRC unless that gets cancelled, might get round to watching the highlights I bought for the last few years 24 Horus of Le Mans. Might finally get around to watching the 2018 British Grand Prix as well as I’m still yet to watch the televised version of that one.

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PostRe: The official Formula One and General Motorsport Thread for the 2020 season!
by Victor Mildew » Sun Mar 15, 2020 8:43 am

The f1 2019 game is free to play for the next 3 days on steam at the moment. I've not played it (no vr no play) but as the official Twitter account is posting hot laps in lieu of a gp weekend, I'm going to give it a go, break the world record and become internet famous.

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PostRe: The official Formula One and General Motorsport Thread for the 2020 season!
by floydfreak » Sun Mar 15, 2020 10:11 am

Full list of races cancelled 75 in total
https://www.racefans.net/2020/03/13/ove ... ronavirus/

1 March 6 – March 8 Moto GP Qatar Grand Prix Losail International Circuit Qatar
2 March 13 – March 15 World Superbikes Qatar Losail International Circuit Qatar
3 March 13 – March 15 Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix Melbourne Australia
4 March 13 – March 15 IndyCar St Petersburg Grand Prix St Petersburg USA
5 March 14 – March 15 NASCAR Atlanta Motor Speedway 500 Atlanta Motor Speedway USA
6 March 13 – March 15 Indy Lights St Petersburg St Petersburg USA
7 March 13 – March 15 Indy Pro 2000 St Petersburg St Petersburg USA
8 March 13 – March 15 USF2000 St Petersburg St Petersburg USA
9 March 13 – March 15 TC Americas St Petersburg St Petersburg USA
10 March 12 – March 15 TCR Asia Pacific Cup Melbourne Melbourne Australia
11 March 15 – March 15 NHRA Gatornationals Gainesville USA
12 March 13 – March 15 Supercars Melbourne Albert Park Australia
13 March 14 – March 15 British Rally Championship West Cork Rally Cork Ireland
14 March 19 – March 20 World Endurance Championship Sebring 1000km Sebring USA
15 March 21 – March 21 Formula E Sanya EPrix Sanya China
16 March 18 – March 21 IMSA 12 Hours of Sebring Sebring USA
17 March 20 – March 21 IMSA Challenge Sebring Sebring USA
18 March 20 – March 22 Moto GP Thailand Grand Prix Buriram International Circuit Thailand
19 March 21 – March 22 Super Taikyu Round one Suzuka Japan
20 March 21 – March 22 NASCAR Homestead-Miami 400 Homestead-Miami USA
21 March 20 – March 22 Formula 1 Bahrain Grand Prix Bahrain International Circuit Bahrain
22 March 20 – March 22 Formula 2 Bahrain rounds Bahrain International Circuit Bahrain
23 March 20 – March 22 Formula 3 Bahrain rounds Bahrain International Circuit Bahrain
24 March 26 – March 28 24H Series 12H Estoril Estoril Portugal
25 March 27 – March 29 World Superbikes Spain Jerez Spain
26 April 4 – April 4 Formula E Rome Eprix Rome Italy
27 April 4 – April 5 Super Formula Round one Suzuka Japan
28 April 3 – April 5 Ferrari Challenge Europe Mugello round Mugello Italy
29 April 3 – April 5 Moto GP Americas Grand Prix Circuit of the Americas USA
30 April 3 – April 5 IndyCar Alabama Grand Prix Barber Motorsports Park USA
31 April 4 – April 5 European Le Mans Series Four Hours of Barcelona Circuit de Catalunya Spain
32 April 3 – April 5 Formula 1 Vietnam Grand Prix Hanoi Circuit Vietnam
33 April 3 – April 5 Indy Lights Alabama Grand Prix Barber Motorsports Park USA
34 April 3 – April 5 Indy Pro 2000 Alabama Grand Prix Barber Motorsports Park USA
35 April 3 – April 5 USF2000 Alabama Grand Prix Barber Motorsports Park USA
36 April 4 – April 5 Super Formula Lights Round one Suzuka Japan
37 April 15 – April 15 S5000 Melbourne Albert Park Australia
38 April 18 – April 18 Formula E Paris EPrix Paris France
39 April 17 – April 19 Formula 1 Chinese Grand Prix Shanghai International Circuit China
40 April 17 – April 19 Porsche Carrera Cup Asia Shanghai round Shanghai International Circuit China
41 April 17 – April 19 Chinese Formula Four Shanghai round Shanghai International Circuit China
42 April 17 – April 19 GT World Challenge Europe Monza round Monza Italy
43 April 17 – April 19 Formula Renault Eurocup Monza round Monza Italy
44 April 17 – April 19 Moto GP Argentinian Grand Prix Termas de Rio Hondo Argentina
45 April 18 – April 19 World Rallycross Championship World RX of Spain Circuit de Catalunya Spain
46 April 24 – April 26 IndyCar Long Beach Grand Prix Long Beach USA
47 April 24 – April 26 World Touring Car Cup Race of Hungary Hungaroring Hungary
48 April 23 – April 26 World Rally Championship Rally Argentina Argentina Argentina
49 April 24 – April 26 IMSA Long Beach Long Beach USA
50 April 25 – April 26 NASCAR Euro Series Valencia NASCAR GP Spain Valencia Spain
51 May 3 – May 3 Formula E Seoul EPrix Seoul South Korea
52 May 6 – May 6 Formula E Jakarta EPrix Jakarta Indonesia
53 May 7 – May 9 IndyCar Americas Grand Prix Circuit of the Americas USA
54 May 9 – May 10 European Le Mans Series Four Hours of Monza Monza Italy
55 October 9 – October 11 TCR China Wuhan Wuhan China
56 November 13 – November 15 24H Series 24H COTA Circuit of the Americas USA


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PostRe: The official Formula One and General Motorsport Thread for the 2020 season!
by Vermilion » Sun Mar 15, 2020 2:14 pm

I suspect more events will be added to that list in due course.

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PostRe: The official Formula One and General Motorsport Thread for the 2020 season!
by floydfreak » Sun Mar 15, 2020 11:31 pm

COTA is no more for the time being.

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PostRe: The official Formula One and General Motorsport Thread for the 2020 season!
by floydfreak » Mon Mar 16, 2020 10:14 am

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PostRe: The official Formula One and General Motorsport Thread for the 2020 season!
by Rawrgna » Mon Mar 16, 2020 1:20 pm

Since most drivers have their own Simulators rinning Rfactor can we not just have a full season of eSport formula 1 to fill in the postponed races

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PostRe: The official Formula One and General Motorsport Thread for the 2020 season!
by floydfreak » Mon Mar 16, 2020 9:29 pm

Isle Of Man TT 2020 has been cancelled

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PostRe: The official Formula One and General Motorsport Thread for the 2020 season!
by Robbo-92 » Tue Mar 17, 2020 5:36 pm

Only a matter of time before the WRC season gets partly cancelled as well. Not seen anything about the 24 hours of Le Mans yet though? Presume that’s one race in the WEC calendar they’ll be desperate to go ahead if possible.

Just put on season 2 of Drive to Survive, I’d forgotten they weren’t hour long episodes so binging it won’t take too long actually!

Edit, I quite enjoyed season 1 of Drive to Survive but 2 episodes into season 2 it’s rather dull, I’ll power through it just to get a bit of an F1 fix :lol: hopefully it improves somewhat.

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PostRe: The official Formula One and General Motorsport Thread for the 2020 season!
by floydfreak » Wed Mar 18, 2020 4:50 pm

Le Mans postponed until September

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PostRe: The official Formula One and General Motorsport Thread for the 2020 season!
by Robbo-92 » Wed Mar 18, 2020 5:15 pm

At least we’ll get more racing in the night? It does look glorious at night. Same weekend as Singapore if that goes ahead so it’ll be a good weekend for racing fans.

Edit, episode 3 of Drive to Survive is a lot better than the first 2, episode 2 was particularly poor, Haas just came across quite poorly in it.

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PostRe: The official Formula One and General Motorsport Thread for the 2020 season!
by Robbo-92 » Thu Mar 19, 2020 5:19 pm

2021 reg change pushed back to 2022, teams will use their 2020 car for 2021. 2022 could be utterly amazing, none of the teams will be able to complain they’ve not had the time to give it a real go. New financial rules still come into play from 2021 though.

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