F1 teams are said to be "very angry" over reports of early summer break

F1 teams are said to be “very angry” over reports of early summer break. F1 is looking for ways to reschedule the events.

In a bid to free up weekends when, or if, Formula 1 can go racing, teams are said to be “very angry” with reports the summer break will take place in the coming six weeks. Formula 1’s bosses are trying to figure a way forward in the midst of the coronavirus outbreak, plotting for the future and what a truncated 2020 calendar could possibly look like.

Almost immediately after the Australian GP was cancelled, the sport announced that both Bahrain and Vietnam had been postponed with the hope that they could yet fit into a new-look calendar. F1 sporting boss Ross Brawn told Sky Sports that he is open to “freeing up the August break” and is even considering “two-day weekends” to allow for triple-headers.

But as the coronavirus pandemic has forced the world to shut down, Brawn and company are reportedly considering telling the teams to take the summer break now. Under the summer break rules, all factories have to be closed for three weeks with F1’s bosses giving the teams a six window in which to choose their three weeks.

Some of the teams aren’t at all happy.

“Multiple sources tell me F1 summer break to take place over next six weeks (from March 23rd – end of April),” reports BBC 5 Live F1’s Jennie Gow. Teams able to select three weeks within that time to shut down. Paves the way for wall to wall racing when Covid-19 is sorted. Some race team members very angry about this.”

She went onto explain: “Why are race team angry about the break suddenly being introduced over the next 6 weeks? It is there to look out for the race team and make sure they get a break. Lots are in quarantine, away from family and that will now be their shut down leave. Family/holiday time gone.”

F1 rules state that a minimum of eight races must be held for a World Championship. Members of the Ferrari team who travelled to Melbourne are self-isolating with the BBC reporting that the Scuderia “offered to put up in hotels anyone who could not return home because of their personal situation.”