F1'S REVISED 2020 CALENDAR
- 14 May 2020
Entirely depending, of course, that the numbers of people dropping off from this tedious virus reduces from like flies to a moderately acceptable number and the world begins to return to some form of normality, the FIA has sent out a provisional calendar for the remains of the 2020 season.
If approved, for the F1 teams this will mean that 19 Grand Prix will be squeezed into the 23 weeks from July 3 to December 13. The Formula 2 season will initially be equally hectic with 10 events in 12 weeks before having a break until the final 2 rounds in December. The Formula 3 season will replicate this with the first 8 rounds matching the others over a nine week period and again the last 2 rounds in December as well.
At this point Hockenheim is on standby in case the British GP at Silverstone cannot go ahead and many of the races that were on the original schedule are now to be cancelled outright such as the Australian, Dutch, Monaco, French and Singapore GPs. Three circuits will hold twin races on consecutive weekends. Those are in Austria, Britain/Hockenheim and Bahrain.
The proposed calendar looks like this;
3-5 July Austrian GP (F2, F3)
10-12 July Austrian GP-2 (F2, F3)
24-26 July British GP/Hockenheim (F2, F3)
31 July-2 August British GP-2/Hockenheim-2 (F2, F3)
7-9 August Hungarian GP (F2, F3)
21-23 August Spanish GP (F2, F3)
28-30 August Belgian GP (F2, F3)
4-6 September Italian GP (F2, F3)
18-20 September Azerbaijan GP (F2)
25-27 September Russian GP (F2)
2-4 October Chinese GP
9-11 October Japanese GP
23-25 October United States GP
30 October-1 November Mexican GP
8 November Brazilian GP
22 November Vietnam GP
29 November Bahrain GP
6 December Bahrain GP-2 (F2, F3)
13 December Abu Dhabi GP (F2, F3)
Sam Snape 14-5 2020