The more we advance, the more we push back the deadlines... This coronavirus is definitely causing harm and will cause victims. Human of course, but given the extensions of confinement periods observed everywhere on the planet, we can begin to fear for the economy and social issues. Thus, if France has implemented its state of health emergency for two months, Great Britain announces that there will be no more motorsport events for at least three months. As for Italy, it only plans to come out of its confinement on July 31...
The last race officially postponed and having the status of world championship is that of WSBK in Assen. For this calendar, Imola is now in the spotlight and as much in the hot seat, because it is difficult to imagine a May 10 perky. Even less so with this latest news from the peninsula: the containment measures could be extended until July 31. This is what the Italian government is evaluating by preparing a new draft decree.
The latter indeed mentions: “ confinement rules can be adopted for predetermined periods, each not exceeding thirty days, which can be repeated and modified even several times until July 31, 2020, with the possibility of modulating their increasing or decreasing application according to the epidemiological trend of Covid-19. » We can therefore already say goodbye to Italian Grand Prix at the end of May…
En Grande Bretagne, it doesn't get any better. It's official, there will be no more motorsport events in the UK for at least three months. Following the speech by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday evening, all events should be forgotten at least until June 30, 2020. It will be recalled that the meeting of Silverstone is expected from August 28 to 30. For the moment, therefore, it holds…
In the meantime, for us, French, here is the latest version of the attestation to be produced to justify an obstruction of confinement:
