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Agag: Motorsport can help keep people at home

Sport has to return as soon as possible for the sake of society as the world battles COVID-19 and going behind closed doors is the immediate way forward, Formula E series founder Alejandro Agag said on Tuesday. The Spaniard, whose latest electric motor racing brainchild is the crowd-free Extreme E due to launch next year, said putting on events without spectators could help fight the pandemic. “Even if it’s behind closed doors, and I think we’ll have to be behind closed doors, people need entertainment while they’re at home,” he told reporters. “If you give them football, if you give them motorsport, if you give them reasons to stay at home, they will stay more happier at home....
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