imola. mercedes s lewis hamilton said on social media that his thoughts were with those affected by the tragedy and with the amazing emergency services working on the ground. inga stracke is a formula 1 journalist who was on her way to italy when the news broke. this is a very early cancellation. we are used to, from previous decades, it seems like that was left very late last minute. yesterday, it was evacuated, some of my colleagues had to leave and others were already there, it looked really dangerous and devastating. around mid night, i got an emailfrom formula one fia saying, today, do not approach the racetrack, stain your hotels if you are already in emilia romagna. we also got news from our italian colleagues and friends that the water levels were rising, there were fatalities there, i feel very sorry and my sympathy goes
it was back at the end of last year that ivan toney was charged with 262 reaches of the fa s betting rules. the breaches were said to have taken place between 2017 and 2021, when he represented four different clubs, scunthorpe, wigan, peterborough and brentford where he has gone on to enjoy so much success this season. the charges revolved around the fa s betting rules which ban players from betting on games or sharing privileged information for the purposes of betting. the fa say they withdrew 30 of their initial charges but ivan toney admitted to the remaining 232 charges and as you say, he s been suspended from all football and football related activity for eight months. formula i has said the cancellation of the emilia romagna grand prix was the right and responsible thing to do . major flooding in the area has led to at least eight deaths and thousands of people having to abandon their homes. it was concluded that the event could not proceed safely in imola. mercedes s lewis hami
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to all the families and those affected and then formula one cancelled, they are saying we cannot be a burden on anybody who is looking after the safety of the people in that area. we ve had bad weather, we ve had typhoons, which had earthquakes injapan which led to postponements or cancellation of qualifying. i m not sure if we had the whole race, the whole weekend cancelled because of that. it is a very packed schedule and i m looking at my calendar now, if i look at it, we originally had a 2k if i look at it, we originally had a 2a race record calendar this year, reduced to 23, still a record, because we lost china in april. now we have a couple of, imola was going to be the first of a triple header. imola, monaco and barcelona and one weeks break then canada. i ve heard a rumour that we might go to imola after canada, end ofjune but it s only a rumour and i ve heard another one, it could be the first week of august but that is the