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Carey: I think we’ve made the right decisions

Amid criticism regarding the tardiness of the cancellation of the Formula 1 season-opening Australian Grand Prix this weekend, the sport's CEO Chase Carey insists that the correct decisions were made at the appropriate time. Red flags fluttered two weeks ago when Italy became the European epicentre for COVID-19 which has since spread randomly and rapidly across the globe which has since been struggling to cope with coronavirus. Earlier in the week, a McLaren staff member was diagnosed as a carrier, upon which the team decided to withdraw from the race. This triggered an emergency meeting between teams, governing bodies and the organisers which ran for several hours and into the early hours...
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