This spring break is taking a long time in Formula 1. Long, because it’s almost a month between Australia and Azerbaijan. Because it seems, directly, August. and what to some suits them like Alpine to others, like Fernando Alonso, they are not liking it. Because the Asturian wants to compete. Because, due to the absence of China, the wait is being eternal.
It could not have been so, because the Asian giant, according to Mark Dreyer in iNews, It didn’t take long for him to regret it. to say ‘no’ to Formula 1 in this 2023. He said it because of COVID, one that closed the country for a long time.
But that is no longer the case, and for this reason they asked F1 to return. That everything would be fine. That there was nothing to worry about. The response to his request was negative.
“The Shanghai government reached out to F1. They told them that by April everything would be fine,” says Dreyer.
“China has already opened up to the world”
And he continues: “COVID has already left, and China has opened up to the world. They wanted come back with a Grand Prix this year”.
“They wanted to make it clear that they have already opened again, and that are an international city”, the journalist says.
For whatever reason, the FIA has not filled the void left by China this year, with a race that could have been in Malaysia, Türkiye or Portugal before heading to Baku. But in 2024…
“I would be surprised if in 2024…”
“I would be surprised if there is no race in China next year. They’re desperate to get back to reality, and they know that the world wants to go to the country with some other precaution,” says Dreyer.
The calendar for the next course promises to be quite dense, if the return of China is confirmed and also that vietnam GP scheduled for 2020 that was never disputed due to COVID.
