The management of the Formula 1 series canceled all four races planned on the American continent due to coronavirus and instead added three more events in Europe to the calendar. Instead of the Grand Prix in Canada, the USA, Mexico and Brazil, this year it will take place in Imola, at the Nürburgring and for the first time on the circuit in Portimão, Portugal.
Lewis Hamilton at the start of the Hungarian Grand Prix. Illustrative photo.
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The reason for the cancellation of the plants in the USA, Brazil and Mexico is the high numbers of coronavirus infections in all three countries and the associated travel restrictions. According to the original program, it was to take place in Austin, Texas, on October 23, and a week later in Mexico and Sao Paulo in mid-November. The Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal has already been postponed from the planned June deadline and will not look for a new date.
Formula 1 will return to the Nürburgring after a seven-year break, and will host the Eifel Grand Prix on 11 October. It’s never been so late on this track before, and according to the BBC, it wouldn’t be a surprise if the race was disrupted by snow.
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Two weeks later, he will race in Portimao. For the Algarve circuit, it will be the premiere in Formula 1, and the Portuguese Grand Prix will return to the World Championship program after 24 years. The last time she went was in 1996 in Estoril.
The Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix will take place in Imola on November 1. The San Marino Grand Prix was held between 1981 and 2006 on the Enzo and Dino Ferrari circuit, named after the founder of the famous carmaker and his son. During the race in 1994, three-time world champion Ayrton Senna died there, while qualifying the day before, pilot Roland Ratzenberger.
The revised calendar of the World Cup, which started due to the coronavirus pandemic with a four-month delay only at the beginning of July in Austria, now includes 13 races. Representatives of the series hope to win 15 to 18 Grand Prix this year.
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The season is scheduled to end with two December Grand Prix in Bahrain and one in Abu Dhabi. Fifteen races are the minimum that must take place in order for F1 to meet the terms of a contract with television rights holders.
After the postponement of the April debut in the formula, Hanoi could also see the Grand Prix and it is also a matter of returning to Sepang, where the race took place between 1999 and 2017.
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