The race is on and Formula One has taken further action to protect itself while the races are off,

with a raft of measures designed to ensure the financial damage of the COVID-19 pandemic is kept under control.

I'm your host, Ed Strawer and Scott Mitchell

joins me for this special extra episode delving into the changes that have been made and the ones

that might still be to come. Scott, so this is yet another busy day, isn't it? Some big announcements,

significant things for the future of Formula One, plenty to keep you busy on the news trail, certainly.

Yes, it's nice of them to be able to give us so much stuff to work on. It's helping tick

tick off the days, isn't it, as this ever-increasing and indefinite hiatus continues. I have no

idea if the percentage of days completed is actually increasing,

though, because it feels like for every day I do, another week gets added on to the time

between the racing resuming. Yeah, it's a long way off. I think we should be,

we should be in Vietnam by now, shouldn't we? That's where we should. Yeah, we should.

Thanks for the reminder.

Instead, I'm day 12 stuck in my flat in Stockholm. Yeah, well, plenty more days to come, as you say.

So let's keep focused on the matter at hand. Now, the FI announced today, various things. So let's kind of break them down. First up is the general one that they've changed it so that they just need a 60%

majority of teams to make changes to rules for this season rather than unanimity.

This seems to be kind of a practical measure, doesn't it?

So ensure that changes that need to be made can be made.

Yeah, absolutely.

So the FAA has basically had this tumultuous few weeks

where they've had lots of requests for postponement

or cancellation of races

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