HI to all you Supercars fans around the world!
Last weekend (starting on Thursday, March 12 through to March 15) was supposed to be the 2nd round of the Virgin Australia Supercars Championship and the opening round of the World Formula 1 Championship.
Unfortunately, COVID-19 was the winner for the weekend in its mission to spoil our fun. COVID-19 is not a new race car to contend with the super fast Mustangs, it’s the Corona Virus causing the entire world a bunch of problems.
Some of the pre-race sessions were run (see further down for the results) but the spread of Corona Virus made itself known.
The McLaren F1 team are now in isolation because 14 of the team members tested positive to Corona virus.
In the end the officials decided on Friday to not let the event go ahead and cancel all the support categories and the Formula 1.
At the moment there is talk that Tasmania and the ITM Super400 could also get cancelled due to this god damn Coronavirus.
So for the sake of keeping check on the form of the teams, here are the results from the pre-race sessions that were run:
- Practice 1 – Jamie Whincup and Shane Van Gisbergen finished 1st and 2
- Practice 2 – Anton de Pasquale was fastest. However, Maculey Jones had a 16G-force impact with the wall at the end of turn 1. Scared the hell out of everyone.
- Qualifying both Shane Van Gisbergen and Jamie Whincup claimed pole position for races 3 and 4.
The next 2 rounds of the Supercars are at Symmons plains and Hampton downs. Let’s hope these next 2 events go ahead. Fingers crossed.
If you have any comments about the event or the affect of Corona Virus we would love to hear from you. Head to my V8 Supercars fan page at https://www.facebook.com/williamsperfectride/ and have your say.
So until the next race – Keep well and healthy and keep it idling.