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Come the early summer, restlessness had truly set in during the initial coronavirus-enforced lockdown. That bore a growing clamour for sport to return in some form or other. Whether it be the Premier League's 'Project Restart' or for a major motorsport series to hurry together a semblance of a calendar, it was hoped these events might offer some way of a distraction.

Sport has for time immemorial been just that: a distraction, and one that took place at weekends. The first race of the 1931 European Drivers' Championship - the forebearer to Formula 1 - was a non-championship round on the Carthage street circuit in Tunisia that took place on 29 March, a Sunday. Precedent set, motorsport has overwhelmingly taken place at a weekend.

There are fleeting exceptions, of course. Occasionally NASCAR Truck Series races stray onto a Thursday or Friday, national club events can occupy a bank holiday Monday or - in the case of the Plumb Pudding meeting at Mallory Park - whichever day Boxing Day falls on.

About Matt Kew

Matt Kew is Autosport Magazine's Editorial Assistant, a role he started in mid 2018. An interest in motorsport was sparked by regular trips to watch ASCAR crash around Rockingham's banked oval.

He read politics and philosophy at the University of Sheffield - receiving first-class honours for his dissertation assessing the lack of female participation in top-tier motor racing.

Matt then covered a wide variety of national race and rally meetings for Autosport as a freelancer before joining full-time. His best efforts to argue the merits of historics and touring cars are undone by a questionable taste in music and James Bond actors.