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Could F1 take lessons from the Bundesliga's return?

Formula 1 might not be the first sporting competition to restart after the COVID-19 stoppage, but it will be the first truly global category to get going again. The German football league's resumption efforts offer some insight to what can be done

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

But F1 will not be the first high-profile series to get going again, with some national football leagues having already resumed, 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.