{"id":2976,"date":"2020-03-16T23:12:56","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T23:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forcc.co.uk\/?p=2976"},"modified":"2020-03-17T11:00:56","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T11:00:56","slug":"covid-19-forcc-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.forcc.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2976","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19 FORCC Shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Good evening everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Several members have messaged me over the last few days\nasking if FORCC is carrying on racing given the current Covid-19 pandemic\nsweeping the planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As much as we&#8217;d hoped that would be carrying on, after much\ndeliberation we&#8217;ve taken the hard decision to suspend racing with immediate\neffect. We have no idea how long this enforced suspension is going to last for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the Government issuing guidelines recommending non\nessential travel and gatherings are put on hold, we have to view this\nresponsibly and seriously and comply with these requirements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most other clubs (not to mention other sporting events) have\nalready suspended activities so we&#8217;re far from being alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Obviously we hope this will only be for a few weeks, but at\npresent we just don&#8217;t know. As soon as we have a better idea we will obviously\nbe back with all guns blazing and shouting it from the rooftops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But for now we just have to consider the best interests of\nour club members and their families. It&#8217;s only toy car racing after all, and everyone&#8217;s\nhealth is a far more serious matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the meantime, stay safe, look after yourselves and your\nfamilies, and we&#8217;ll see you all soon when this all blows over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Best wishes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dave, Alan and Jon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/conditions\/coronavirus-covid-19\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">https:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/conditions\/coronavirus-covid-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/health-and-social-care\/public-health\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/health-and-social-care\/public-health<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/111.nhs.uk\/covid-19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">https:\/\/111.nhs.uk\/covid-19<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good evening everyone. Several members have messaged me over the last few days asking if FORCC is carrying on racing given the current Covid-19 pandemic sweeping the planet. As much as we&#8217;d hoped that would be carrying on, after much deliberation we&#8217;ve taken the hard decision to suspend racing with immediate effect. We have no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"saved_in_kubio":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forcc.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forcc.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forcc.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forcc.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forcc.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2976"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.forcc.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2980,"href":"https:\/\/www.forcc.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2976\/revisions\/2980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forcc.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forcc.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forcc.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}