The Covid-19 pandemic accounted for much of the 2020 campaign, but it reached a head in Australia, with the planned opening round called off on Friday morning just hours in advance of first practice as the health crisis worsened. All of the non-European and non-Middle East rounds were eventually canceled, along with some European rounds too, while the planned inaugural Vietnam Grand Prix, which was just three weeks away at the time, was also axed. <\/p>\n
The semi-permanent circuit, in Hanoi, had been finished, as had an impressive 300-meter-long (985 ft), three-story pit building. But Formula 1 never ventured to Hanoi as one of the main organizers was imprisoned on corruption charges unrelated to the grand prix. Six years on, the track has sat unused, and the building remains. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Covid-19 pandemic accounted for much of the 2020 campaign, but it reached a head in Australia, with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,782,225120,9332,578,576,577,1642,225119,82,184740],"class_list":{"0":"post-591513","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-formula-1","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-content-type-news","11":"tag-contentid-e9572468-d0b7-4e9e-a657-7352e8a8a4a7","12":"tag-displaytype-listicle","13":"tag-f1","14":"tag-formula-1","15":"tag-formula1","16":"tag-locale-us","17":"tag-shorttitle-history-of-canceled-grands-prix-in-formula-1","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-subsection-formula-one"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}