Formula 1 has made a final call on the fate of the Turkish GP, cancelling the June 13 event and adding a second round of racing at the Red Bull Ring in Austria on June 27. The writing was on the wall for the race at Istanbul Park, a slot-in event for the Covid-19 cancelled Canadian GP, after Turkey was placed on the UK's 'red list' of countries on which stringent travel restrictions and quarantine measures have been imposed. A majority of F1 personnel traveling back to the UK from Turkey after the event in Istanbul would have been forced to comply with the mandatory 10-day quarantine in government-approved hotels imposed by the British government. The impracticality of the measures...
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