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Jones: ‘Australian GP should have gone ahead'

1980 World Champion, Alan Jones, thinks that the season opener at the Australian Grand Prix should have gone ahead. The Melbourne race weekend was only cancelled with just two hours to go until FP1 was due to get underway at Albert Park after Formula 1 bosses deliberated whether to go ahead or not in the wake of a McLaren team member testing positive for coronavirus. Jones, who was due to do media work throughout the weekend, thinks the former option should have been taken – but did understand why they picked the latter. 'From my point of view I would have gone ahead and done it anyway but you have to be sensible about the whole thing,' Jones told The Guardian. 'Doing commentary for...
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