The crowd is usually small, with some 18,000 grandstand seats plus another 2,000 for hospitality and VIP and up to 15,000 general admission tickets available, but the race has been one of the more entertaining and unpredictable.
The next race that remains on is the Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal on June 14, but that also looks uncertain due to the pandemic, as does France on June 28.
France has stringent restrictions on people’s movements while Canada has closed its borders to all but essential travel.
Questions are now being asked about whether Formula One, with rounds still to come in Asia, the Americas, Middle East and Europe, will be able to hold even the minimum eight races needed to make a championship.
Formula One has cancelled its usual August shutdown, bringing it forward and extending it to three weeks in March and April in the hope of rescheduling races from earlier in the season, but that may be wishful thinking.
Postponement of the race in Baku leaves Azerbaijan without a major sporting event in a year that had promised plenty of action.
The city had been due to host four games, including a quarterfinal of the Euro 2020 soccer championship, but that has now been postponed to next year.
Source Sunday Times.
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