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Unbelievable these events are going ahead. A number of travelers returning to Australia from the USA have contracted COVID19, indicating the disease is more widespread than admitted by the government.

The Formula 1 Grand Prix is going ahead in Australia this weekend, which is equally poor.

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I always thought the majority of income for F1 is unrelated to the live visitors. and as such it should be fine to do it just without live publicum. ...

I wonder if I'm wrong about it or they are just too irresponsible to cancel the parts involving crowdes?

Irresponsible mostly. Bahrain has already said it plans to hold their Grand Prix in an empty grandstand.

I do think the host tracks would prefer to have a full Grand Stand, due to ticket sales, but I'm not sure how much it would affect F1 as a whole.

Sadly, there seems to be a sense of invincibility almost towards the virus in Western Countries until all of a sudden it arrives and you are dealing with hundreds or thousands of cases.

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