The health emergency continues to affect the scheduling of the Championships and simply being in 2021 hardly means 2020 is now history. The cancellation of the Rotax Finals in Portimao – a consequence of the tightening of the rules by a local government – has brought back a problem with which it will probably be necessary to deal with in the immediate future. Let’s see what difficulties the pandemic continues to create in Karting worldwide, what challenges and what opportunities the year that’s just started may reserve for us.
by Fabio Marangon
AN ITEM OF PRIMARY EXPENDITURE
Logistics has always been one of the major spending items of motor racing: whether it’s moving trucks on European highways, loading boxes of materials on airplanes, or sleeping 15 mechanics in a hotel near the track. The work of organizing travel has always been one of the most detailed and clear, and it often starts a few months before the activities that the team (or individual driver) must participate in.
For this reason, the covid-19 pandemic has numerous and evolving limitations, which often vary from country to country. It was and is a complex problem, which must be solved in the right way. “Unfortunately, it is clear that much of the work done in recent months has been wasted by this cancellation, but we understand that the situation is extraordinary and unpredictable until the last month.
he frames (112, ed.) were delivered the day before the cancellation was announced, and then they came back We learned from Birrell art, one of the technical partners in the potimouth rotakes final. In fact, events of this scale involve a variety of key roles, and this work started a few months ago. In fact, it is impossible to fully predict the development of events and emergencies.
When we think about the CIK FIA World Championship in Brazil, we can’t help asking that the event has been postponed from 2020 to 2021. In this case, the frame and most of the material have to be shipped a few months in advance. If there are any difficulties near the event, the loss will be greater for the relevant companies and teams.
Considering that it is obviously very difficult to predict the future, what factors can be considered to limit the damage and inconvenience caused by cancelling or delaying the game?
Is there a system for motorsport to manage the global situation? On the one hand, we may be confused to see motor racing as a pyramid with formula one at the top. The organizers of the F1 world championships have foreseen an increase in the number of races from 22 to 23, adding new tracks and extending the race schedule to Christmas Eve, after they had been in (?) Nothing seems to have happened in March and December. Last year, we saw a lot of cancellations in the spring, and we all hope that’s not the case. We can really play, but there are some subtle changes (thank God!) Despite skipping Australia and (perhaps) China, the window of possibility for many countries (including Italy, which should host the second Olympic Games in mid April) does not seem so favorable at the moment.
OPTIMISM ALONE IS NOT ENOUGH
Some scholars define it as the POLYANA principle, or tend to selectively perceive, remember and communicate the positive aspects of the situation, while ignoring the negative or problematic aspects. We think that this is not the guiding principle for choosing how, when and where to compete, but also because for a problem that we all hope to solve as soon as possible, there are not only optimistic and positive attitudes, but also positive attitudes A lot of sports interests and budgets are on the table. Or, there may be a new way to explain “global” race, which can flexibly adjust the organization of events. In occupation sports, it is seen as a “model” example, for example, the famous NBA bubble (or other team sports alliances), in order to not burn off the billions of dollars of television broadcast rights they have sold, and organize competitions in restricted areas with strict sports restrictions, these are feasible in motor sports, especially in those TV programs. In the middle.
MotoGp was organized with double races and the “Hotel-Circuit” bubble – a bit like F1 and other motorsport disciplines (the giant bubble of the paddock and the smaller bubbles, whose monitoring was up to the individual teams) – but you understand that we are talking about sports with much more visibility than karting, a sport that risks having the same logistical costs as its older brothers, but with no income linked to sponsors and television rights, why it would make sense to study and perfect flexible calendars that can be adapted to the current season
GLOBAL UNCERTAINTIES
Of course, the major teams are obviously paying attention to the major events of the International Automobile Association (CIK), and the interval between our first round of the European Championship with Zula (April 18) is very important to understand the possible turning point of the season. Of course, the second wave of covid-19 infection is a bit underrated, but it is hoped that the “peak” will be overcome in early March, when the season can begin in spring and end in a linear manner. If the state of emergency continues throughout the first half, then this season will definitely be completely redesigned, which will be necessary to reduce the number of races, except for the use of ‘buffer’ in August, at present, no FIA appointment is foreseen on the calendar ‘, explaining that Marco Angeletti is one of the CRGs in those teams that invested heavily in 2021 season, with a new driver lineup in the season The pre-test has been very busy – obviously respecting the current rules.
«As far as we are concerned, – he continues, – the WSK events at the beginning of the year are a sort of test and comparison with other competitors, but can also be replaced with simple test sessions as we are already doing.
As for the security agreement envisaged for the race weekend, we are in the hands of the FIA and the federations, which in turn carry out the instructions of the governments. With regard to testing, the CRG team confirmed that the impact of the epidemic has been minimal so far: “karting is not one of the most penalized movements in this sense, because testing can be carried out on a regular basis and, in fact, non professionals never stop. It’s the same with the race, because everything seems to show that you can run with a simple enough agreement, and the biggest problem seems to be that some foreign teams and drivers are likely to go to Italy, where the first WSK race will be held. At present, we have no information about the staff’s obligation to test the tampons in WSK and rgmmc competitions. In fact, in a multi day event involving only a few hundred staff members, many problems will arise.
Article created in collaboration with Vroom Karting Magazine.
Post time: Mar-01-2021