Chinese Grand Prix 2023 on hold
The race in China may be cancelled due to the health crisis. Guantu Zhou hopes the event will go ahead.
Cancelled in 2020. Cancelled in 2021. Same in 2022 and soon in 2023. The Chinese Grand Prix has been absent from the calendar since 2019, which was the 1000th race of the discipline. The health situation and the Covid crisis have put an end to the last three editions, and maybe the next one as well.
The Chinese government has intensified health restrictions in several cities across the territory, raising doubts about the holding of the Grand Prix. Despite the ongoing Covid situation in China being a concern, and it is not certain whether we will be able to race there in 2023, we continue to monitor the situation, confirmed Stefano Domenicali.
The 2023 calendar has 24 dates. Without China, it could fall to 23, unless F1 decides to replace that race with another destination or a double-header, as they did in 2020 with Silverstone and Spielberg.
At the home stage, Guanyu Zhou hopes that the event will be maintained. He could thus take his first laps, at home and in front of his audience. « I think we will see that in April [regarding the Covid situation]. But there is still a strong chance that it will happen, » he said on Thursday, November 10th, in Brazil.
« Obviously, there is still this question mark as to whether it will be contested in April or maybe later in the year. We have to wait and we will see.
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