Formula One's truncated coronavirus-hit season will finally get underway with the Austrian Grand Prix on 5 July, the Austrian government has announced.
The Spielberg circuit has also been given the green light to stage a second race the following weekend.
"The two Formula One races on 5 and 12 July at Spielberg will be staged without spectators," said Austrian Health Minister Rudolf Anschober.
He added that the two races had been approved after F1 organisers "had presented a complete and professional plan" to combat the spread of Covid-19.
Austria is among countries moving ahead with easing restrictions as coronavirus infections wane.
Formula One's 10 teams will be limited to a maximum 80 people each at the races when the delayed season gets going, the governing International Automobile Federation (FIA) had said on Thursday.
The numbers are likely still to exceed 1,000 with support series and marshals, medical staff and others also to be factored in.
The F1 season was thrown into chaos with the cancellation of the traditional curtain-raising Australian Grand Prix in March only hours before practice was due to begin.
It was one of 10 races either cancelled or postponed, yet F1 boss Chase Carey has insisted that a 15-18 race season is still possible.
But Silverstone's hopes of also staging back-to-back races after Austria are in the balance after the British government insisted that all arrivals in the country undergo a two-week quarantine period.
