The Australian System One Grand Prix in Melbourne appears to be like set to be rescheduled from its season-opening slot to later within the 12 months as a result of COVID-19 pandemic and a tightening of native quarantine guidelines.

Tickets for the March 21 race at Albert Park have but to go on sale.

A System One spokesman, requested on Monday about media experiences of a probable postponement, mentioned the game appeared ahead to racing once more in March.

He didn’t specify the place, with Bahrain’s Grand Prix additionally scheduled for March.

“In 2020 we proved that we might return to racing safely and delivered what many thought was unimaginable in March,” he mentioned. “We have now set out our 2021 calendar and sit up for the return of F1 in March this 12 months.”

Native organisers in Melbourne weren’t instantly out there for remark however varied experiences mentioned a postponement, reasonably than a cancellation for the second 12 months in a row, was prone to be introduced later in January.

Development work to erect fences and grandstands across the short-term avenue circuit would usually begin by the top of January.

Final 12 months’s Australian Grand Prix was known as off, solely hours earlier than first follow was on account of begin on the Albert Park avenue circuit, when a McLaren crew member examined optimistic to the virus.

The season ultimately began in Austria in July, with the calendar closely rescheduled and lowered from an unique report 22 races to 17 in Europe and the Center East.

Bahrain’s Sakhir circuit, which is because of host spherical two on March 28, ended up internet hosting two races on the finish of November and in early December.

Groups, drivers and travelling media needed to check detrimental earlier than travelling and once more on arrival, with a brief quarantine till the outcomes had been identified.

Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton, Britain’s seven-times world champion, missed the second race at Sakhir after testing optimistic for the virus.

Melbourne would contain a far longer interval of obligatory isolation.

A whole bunch of high tennis gamers, anticipated to reach in Melbourne in mid-January, should spend 14 days in quarantine earlier than the Feb. 8-21 Australian Open.

Seven of System One’s 10 groups are primarily based in England, the place instances are surging on account of a extremely infectious new variant of the coronavirus. Many nations have shut their borders to travellers from Britain.