World Motor Sport Council confirmed the 2010 calendar. The season will kick off in Bahrain in the middle of the March and end eight months later in Abu Dhabi. The new calendar features 19 races. No races have been dropped, British Grand Prix remains at Silverstone, Canadian Grand Prix returns and Korean GP will debut.
There [...]
2010
2010 F1 Calendar – Canada returns, Silverstone stays, Korea to debut
2010
2010 F1 calendar has 19 races
Besides the Renault verdict the WMSC today also published the latest version of 2010 Formula One calendar (see the previous version here). Two more races than this year are planned – Canadian GP is set to return (although the contract talks are yet to be finalized) and Korean GP is to debut in October 2010. [...]
2010
2010 Formula 1 calendar draft – Where is Korea?
The teams and fans have the opportunity to see how the 2010 F1 calendar may possibly look. The draft circulating during Belgian GP weekend reveals several changes.
The 2010 season may kick off in Bahrain instead of the usual Melbourne curtain raiser. Bernie obviously wants to run the Australian GP as a twilight race again with [...]
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F1 developments in North America
North America made F1 headlines this week. First have at a look at the USF1 information published by TechCrunch. This is a quote from article written by Michael Arrington:
“I also ran into YouTube founder Chad Hurley at the Fuze offices, who was meeting with the Best Buy team along with the execs from the new [...]
2008
What Formula 1 lost in 2008
The 2008 Formula One season was one the most exciting in recent memory. We have had new races, new faces, new race winners and a new champion. But 2008 was also year of losses for Formula One. Here is brief overview of what (who) we will not see next year:
2008
My 2008 Formula 1 trips – Photo review
Melbourne, Montreal, Valencia, Singapore – these were my 2008 Formula 1 destinations. Melbourne and Montreal were new for me, Valencia and Singapore new even to Formula 1. Montreal and Singapore were also 2 of only 4 sell out races in 2008. Here is a mini photo review of the events that unfolded in front [...]
2009
A Bernie post, on Canada and on those medals one more time
Bernie Ecclestone has been in the news quite a bit in recent days. His divorce, the Canadian GP future, the medals… I do not really care about his divorce at this moment but I would like to return to the other 2 topics for a while. (read on)
2008
The Formula 1 Off Season News Round Up – Part 2
The winter testing has started and after months of speculations we finally got some live presenation of what the 2009 Formula 1 cars may look like. It does not look that good , and according to Christian Klien these are the worst looking F1 cars, ever …
2008
Montreal gives up but can China be the light at end of the tunnel ?
As it is often case in Formula 1 the money and greed prevailed, the sport and fans are the loosers. Following the news coming out of Montreal on Sunday the chances that the Canadian GP may reappear on 2009 F1 calendar when its final version is released in December are now close to zero. Finding [...]
2009
2009 French GP cancelled, will some other F1 track step in ?
The decision of the Federation Francaise du Sport Automobile (FFSA) to cancel the 2009 French Grand Prix came as a surprise. At the same time however it was probably only a matter of time before someone came out cancelling a race. Rumours about some race organizers looking for a way out of 2009 calendar surfaced [...]
2009
Canadian GP cancelled – What is behind this FIA decision ?
The decision by WMSC and FIA to omit the Canadian GP from 2009 Formula 1 calendar (without any explanation) caught me by suprise yesterday. Actually surprise is not strong enough word. I was truly shocked. I may be a bit biased here thanks to my visit to the Canadian GP this year. But the reason [...]
2009
Canadian GP dropped from 2009 Formula 1 calendar
FIA today announced the 2009 Formula 1 calendar. Compared with the provisional calendar published a while ago there is one big change – the Canadian GP in Montreal is missing for the first time since 1987. There was no reason given (at least for now). This means that after inclusion of Abu Dhabi the 2009 [...]
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