The season was due to be contested over a record 22 Grands Prix , but the exact number is now uncertain as some races have been cancelled and there is no certainty that all postponed F1 Race Replay can be held on later dates.
Robert Kubica left Williams at the end of the championship and joined Alfa Romeo Racing as a reserve driver. The length of each F1 Race Replay is the minimum number of laps that exceeds a total distance of km As per the sporting regulations, a minimum of eight races must take place for the season to be considered a championship.
Several countries and venues announced plans to bid for a Grand Prix, with two bids being successful. Liberty Media initially expected that the F1 Race Torrent calendar would consist of twenty-one Grands Prix and that any new races would come at the expense of existing events, but later negotiated an agreement with the teams to allow up to twenty-two Grands Prix.
Teams are allowed to use an additional MGU-K compared to to compensate for the increased demands of contesting twenty-two races. Any driver who completes a minimum km 62 mi during a free practice session receives an additional Super Licence point on the condition that they do not commit a driving infraction. Drivers may only accrue ten Super Licence points per year from free practice sessions. As a result of the expanded calendar for F1 Race Torrent, the two pre-season tests due to take place at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya were reduced in length from four days to three days each, whilst the two in-season tests that took place at Bahrain International Circuit and Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya in have been discontinued.
Teams were no longer allowed to hide their cars during testing. The amount of time in which car mechanics are not allowed to work on the car has been extended from eight to nine hours.
The rules surrounding jump starts and the weighbridge have been relaxed with the race stewards now being able to hand out less severe punishments for missing the weighbridge and jump starts. The season-opening Australian Grand Prix was expected to go ahead and all teams and drivers arrived at the venue as planned. Three days before the race was due to take place, McLaren announced their withdrawal from the event after a team member tested positive for the virus.
This led to the Grand Prix being cancelled altogether the following morning. Later that day, it was announced that the Bahrain Grand Prix would be postponed rather than closed to spectators, as would the inaugural Vietnamese Grand Prix.
The organisers of the Monaco race, Automobile Club de Monaco, clarified that the race had been cancelled. This means that Formula One would not race in Monaco for the first time since Four days later, organisers of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix announced that the race had been postponed. Later in the month, the French Grand Prix organisers confirmed that the race would not be held in , and the managing director of Silverstone Circuit stated that should the British Grand Prix go ahead, it would be without spectators.
In May, organisers of the Hungarian Grand Prix announced that their race would use the same model. The Dutch Grand Prix was cancelled entirely in late May, with organisers of the event stating that they would prefer to host the revived race with spectators in attendance in rather than without spectators in The annual summer break, where factories shut down for two weeks, was brought forward from August to March and April.
The racing drivers are required to be holders of valid Super Licences , the highest class of racing licence issued by the FIA. The races are required to be held on tracks graded 1 formerly A , the highest grade a track can receive by the FIA. Most events are held in rural locations on purpose-built tracks, but there are several events in city centres throughout the world, with the Monaco Grand Prix being the most obvious and famous example.
Formula One cars are the fastest road course racing cars in the world, owing to very high cornering speeds achieved through the generation of large amounts of aerodynamic downforce.
The cars are capable of lateral acceleration in excess of five g in corners. The performance of the cars is very dependent on electronics — although traction control and other driving aids have been banned since — and on aerodynamics , suspension , and tyres. The formula 1 race has radically evolved and changed through the history of the sport. Formula 1 race had a total global television audience of million people during the course of the season.
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