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Formula 1 could rightly feel proud of itself after its Austrian double-header, having laid out a blueprint for the world on how global sporting events can take place amid the threat of coronavirus.
To have successfully pulled off a two-week stint at the Red Bull Ring, with the 2000 people present having gone through 10,000 COVID-19 swab tests without a single positive result, was testament to the strict protocols that F1 and the FIA put in place.
Sure it was frustrating for some, with F1 losing almost all of the paddock interaction that creates much of the championship's fantastic soap opera drama: but that was a small price to pay for ensuring that there was no repeat of the events that forced the original season opener in Australia to be cancelled on the Friday morning.
