Circuit of the Americas Chair Bobby Epstein said that F1's U.S. Grand Prix has been "canceled due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic," according to Ross Burkhart of the AUSTIN AMERICAN-STATESMAN. F1 on Friday morning announced that the cancellation "comes along with the removal of the Mexican Grand Prix in Mexico City, the Brazilian Grand Prix in São Paulo and the Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal from this year's schedule as well." Epstein said, "Everyone's on the same page that it’s too risky to try and plan that and risk spending the millions to bring over freight to get everything geared up. You really would be betting now on the situation getting a lot better, and I don't think anyone's willing to place that bet." Burkhart notes with the U.S. GP's cancellation, COTA now has "suffered a complete loss in its 2020 schedule." COTA had "already rescheduled the MotoGP Red Bull Grand Prix of the Americas to November amid increasing coronavirus cases internationally, but the race then was called off earlier this month." No discussions have "taken place regarding an F1 race being scheduled in 2021, but those are expected to happen" (AUSTIN AMERICAN-STATESMAN, 7/24).
