{"id":1764476,"date":"2022-12-06T07:59:48","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T12:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1764476"},"modified":"2022-12-06T10:48:23","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T15:48:23","slug":"formula-1-cancels-2023-chinese-grand-prix-due-to-covid-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/formula-1-cancels-2023-chinese-grand-prix-due-to-covid-restrictions\/","title":{"rendered":"Formula 1 Cancels 2023 Chinese Grand Prix Due to COVID Restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fformula-1-cancels-2023-chinese-grand-prix-due-to-covid-restrictions%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1764476&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Hou-Yu_China-News-Service_Visual-China-Group-via-Getty-Images-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Formula 1 has canceled the\u00a02023 Chinese Grand Prix that was scheduled for mid-April next year \u201cdue to the ongoing difficulties presented by the COVID-19 situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">The announcement was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.formula1.com\/en\/latest\/article.formula-1-confirms-2023-chinese-grand-prix-will-not-take-place.186HJrsCh027R2rl0eJnWG.html\">made<\/a> after the decision \u201cfollowing dialogue with the promoter and relevant authorities.\u201d The organizing body is \u201cassessing alternative options to replace the slot on the 2023 calendar and will provide an update on this in due course.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The 2023 Chinese Grand Prix will not take place due to the ongoing difficulties presented by the COVID-19 situation<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/F1?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#F1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RQaEplXJvA\">pic.twitter.com\/RQaEplXJvA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Formula 1 (@F1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/F1\/status\/1598633240947851266?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 2, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">The cancellation comes as China continues to enforce a\u00a0zero-Covid policy, ultimately leading to\u00a0heavy restrictions and continued lockdowns.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The\u00a0zero-Covid policy would ultimately cause unnecessary havoc, forcing the sport to concede it would not be\u00a0feasible\u00a0to hold a race that usually attracts large crowds with many employees from each team having to travel through the county.<\/p>\n<p>The race next year would have been the return of the\u00a0Chinese Grand Prix since the last one in 2019, before the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The absence of the race now leaves a roughly four-week gap between the\u00a0Austrian Grand Prix on April 2 in\u00a0Melbourne and the\u00a0Azerbaijan Grand Prix on April 30 in Baku.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"a8d-pre twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: Formula 1 has cancelled the 2023 Chinese Grand Prix, as a result of the country\u2019s strict Covid policies. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/W1HeZS3u5O\">pic.twitter.com\/W1HeZS3u5O<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sky Sports F1 (@SkySportsF1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkySportsF1\/status\/1598635044540645378?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 2, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>However,\u00a0Formula 1 is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/f1\/news\/12433\/12759270\/chinese-grand-prix-cancelled-formula-1-2023-calendar-back-to-23-races-as-replacement-options-discussed\">reportedly<\/a> not desperate to fill the gap since there will still be\u00a023 rounds\u00a0scheduled, three of which are in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, Sky Sports reported that \u201cseveral interested parties\u201d are looking to fill China\u2019s spot, including\u00a0Portimao for a\u00a0Portuguese Grand Prix, which returned to the Formula 1 schedule in 2020 and 2021 but has been initially left off of next year\u2019s schedule.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/author\/jbliss\/\"><i>Jacob Bliss<\/i><\/a><i> is a reporter for Breitbart News. Write to him at <\/i><a href=\"mailto:jbliss@breitbart.com\"><i>jbliss@breitbart.com<\/i><\/a><i>\u00a0or follow him on Twitter\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jacobmbliss\"><i>@JacobMBliss<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Formula 1 has canceled the\u00a02023 Chinese Grand Prix that was scheduled for mid-April next year \u201cdue to the ongoing difficulties presented by the COVID-19 situation.\u201d The announcement was made after<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1764479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1764476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1764476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1764479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1764476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1764476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1764476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}