Five talking points from the 2020 F1 Season
It was the season that looked like it wouldn’t happen – but it did, and there is plenty to talk about in closing it out. Let’s get to it.
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It was the season that looked like it wouldn’t happen – but it did, and there is plenty to talk about in closing it out. Let’s get to it.
Thanks to both Formula One and Supercars overcoming significant logistical challenges in 2020, the two championships delivered some great racing in this challenging year.
Well, that was an incredibly boring way to end the season. Let’s try and find some things to talk about from another snooze fest, shall we?
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The currently silent and vacant sporting landscape has brought on much reflection. Many Australian competitions appear likely to go to ruin in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, and concerns around what our sporting face will look like in a few months are genuine.
In 2016 I wrote a piece for The Roar entitled My ten greatest sporting reads.
Sport can so often provide a welcome distraction to the unpleasantries of real-world events we’d rather avoid. So to see so many competitions cancelled or postponed due to coronavirus is, to say the least, unnerving.
Australia’s chief medical officer, Brendan Murphy, has advised Australia’s State and Federal governments to ban public gatherings of more than 500 people due to the coronavirus pandemic, leaving the immediate future of the country’s sporting competitions in grave doubt.
Scott McLaughlin has won the 2019 Bathurst 1000, his first win in the event, in dramatic circumstances on Sunday afternoon.
It was a wet and rainy race which provided difficult tests for all drivers. There were many changes throughout the race and things swung heavily.
This year’s championship may have been a foregone conclusion for months but it can now be officially said that Lewis Hamilton is a seven-time world champion.
Alexander Albon was roped into the Red Bull Racing Team with high expectations after a disappointing run for his predecessor Pierre Gasly.
Despite crashing out of his maiden IndyCar race at the Grand Prix of St Petersburg before reaching half-race distance, Scott McLaughlin described his open-wheel race debut as “the best day of my life apart from my wedding.”
How Ricciardo passes the time when there’s no F1 on.
Both Jorge Martinez and Marion Calvo were suspended for two years, following Costa Rica’s National Motorbike Championship in February.
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