The 2020 Formula 1 season could now start🅰 in June at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic following the cancellation of the Australian Grand Pri꧟x.

This weekend’s season-opening🌞 event in Melbourne was called off afterꦐ McLaren withdrew from the race after a member of its team tested positive for COVID-19.

With April’s Chinese Grand Prix already postponed, F1 championship officials and the FIA are now evaluating upcoming races in Bahrain and Vietnam, which are sched🌄uled to take place on March 22 and April 5 respectively.

Both ♈events are now under serious doubt, with F1 understood to also be considering whether to postpone the Dutch, Spain and Monaco Grands Prix and start the season in Bak🌸u on June 7.

"At this point our focus really is dealing with the issues this weekend," Carey s⛄aid.

"Cle🌄arly, I just came in from Vietnam, so we are in discussion with partners o༺n the upcoming races.

“But I think at this point what we really want to do is make sure we deal with the issues here, deal with th🍸em properly.

"But in the coming days, clearly we will be addressing the events yet to come. It's a pretty difficult situation to rea🌠lly predict, everybody uses the word fluid - it is obviously a fluid situation.

"The 😼situation toda▨y is different than it was two days ago, which is different than it was four days ago. So trying to look out and make those sorts of predictions when it's changing this quickly is challenging.”

Carey said the fast-changing developments around the📖 coronavirus ou🔯tbreak means F1 is dealing with “an array of complexities” in multiple countries.

"Everybody wants an answe🦋r and we'd love to have an answer,” he replied💧 when asked where F1 personnel should book tickets to next.

"I think you can't force an answer to something thatꦆ right now you don't have an answer to. I think we just have to continue doing what we're doing, reaching out to everybody, every expert, we can 🍸around the world.

"Clearly we're a global sport. Anꦆd therefore, you know, we're not just dealing with a single country issue, we're dealing with an array of complexities. But 🀅I think we have to continue to deal with those as the situation evolves."