They have to stage an F1 Race. They are contractually bound to do so and there are significant penalties if they do not. Especially if they decide not to, as opposed to being forced into not doing so.
Therefore a race has to be defined so that it can be determined whether or not there was one. What occurred on Sunday was a race. Thus no television company, broadcaster, sponsor, advertiser, corporate event organiser, service provider, contractor, on-site retailer or anybody else has any claim at all.
And that includes the spectators.
However, had they run a full race they could have been sued if it was felt that they were irresponsible to do so, and much worse if something had actually gone wrong.
A lot of the above applies to every team also, particularly in relationship to their sponsors and other contractual obligations.
It wasn't done for the good of the sport - race or not race, it was purely financial reasoning.
But then, without the finances the 'sport' wouldn't be there.
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