AlphaTauri team boss Franz Tost has said the current Coronavirus pandemic is saving Formula 1 teams 'a lot of money', which will also benefit the 2021 season. Whilst the pandemic has forced the cancellation of the start of the season and will likely see a reduced calendar of between 15-18 races depending on when racing can return – the calendar was originally 21 races – the reduced income has been somewhat offset by the delay to the 2021 regulations, which won't now take effect until 2022. Tost says this will save teams vast sums of money as they no longer have to run joint development programmes this year. 'The good thing about the coronavirus story is that we don't have to do double...
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