F1 chief drops 2020 schedule update as coronavirus threatens Bahrain, Vietnam Grands Prix

F1 will return to Japan in October for the Japanese Grand Prix and this week the onus was put on the Far East country to deal with coronavirus ahead of the Olympics.

“This is the new war and you have to face it,” said International Olympic Committee chief Dick Pound, adding that by late May “folks are going to have to ask: ‘Is this under sufficient control that we can be confident about going to Tokyo, or not?'”

Pound said: “It’s a big, big, big decision and you just can’t take it until you have reliable facts on which to base it.

“You just don’t postpone something on the size and scale of the Olympics. There’s so many moving parts, so many countries and different seasons, and competitive seasons, and television seasons. You can’t just say, we’ll do it in October.”

source: express.co.uk