Why F1 can take heart from the Bundesliga’s lessons

As Formula 1 finally returns to action next week, there are some key issues it will have to overcome, but it can look at the Bundesliga's return and take vital lessons on how to deal with the situation

Jonathan Noble Jun 25, 2020, 9:43 AM

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With the Olympics and the European football championships both being postponed until 2021, Formula 1 is all set to become the first truly global sport to get back in action with the Austrian Grand Prix all ready for go on July 5.

But F1 will not be the first high-profile series to get going again, with some national football leagues having already got themselves rolling again, albeit under the very different circumstances of the 'new normal'.

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Author Jonathan Noble

Jonathan Noble is Motorsport.com’s Formula 1 editor. Having graduated from University of Sussex Jonathan worked for sports news agency Collings Sports reporting on F1, F3, touring cars and other sports, with articles appearing in The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, Reuters, Autosport and other publications. In 1999 he moved to Haymarket Publishing to become a senior editor at Autosport Special Projects, and one year later he became Autosport’s grand prix editor. In 2015 he moved to Motorsport Network, becoming the F1 editor for Motorsport.com. He is also a member of the Guild of Motoring Writers, and sits on the FIA Media Council.

Jonathan has won multiple awards for journalism - in 1991 he was the winner of the Guild of Motoring Writers’ Sir William Lyons’ Award for young journalists, in 2010 he was awarded the Outstanding Individual accolade for consumer journalism in the Haymarket wards, in 2011 he won Haymarket’s Scoop of the Year, and in 2018 he was awarded a prestigious Medaglia d’Oro at the Lorenzo Bandini Awards for his contribution to F1 journalism.