FIA confirms 2013 calendar cut to 19 races
2013 F1 season
With one week to go to the start of the new Formula One season the FIA has finally confirmed this year’s schedule.
The 2013 F1 calendar will have 19 rounds instead of the 20 previously announced in September.
Plans for an additional race in Europe on July 21st have been scrapped after a host could not be found.
The sport’s governing body added that discussions over the new Concorde Agreement are still ongoing and will be “concluded in the near future”. A settlement on the commercial agreement which governs F1 was originally due to be reached last October.
Here is the final calendar for 2013:
| Round | Race | Circuit | Date | Forum |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Australian Grand Prix | Albert Park | March 15 – 17 | Forum |
| 2 | Malaysian Grand Prix | Sepang International Circuit | March 22 – 24 | Forum |
| 3 | Chinese Grand Prix | Shanghai International Circuit | April 12 – 14 | Forum |
| 4 | Bahrain Grand Prix | Bahrain International Circuit | April 19 – 21 | Forum |
| 5 | Spanish Grand Prix | Circuit de Catalunya | May 10 – 12 | Forum |
| 6 | Monaco Grand Prix | Monte-Carlo | May 23 – 26 | Forum |
| 7 | Canadian Grand Prix | Circuit Gilles Villeneuve | June 7 – 9 | Forum |
| 8 | British Grand Prix | Silverstone | June 28 – 30 | Forum |
| 9 | German Grand Prix | Nurburgring | July 5 – 7 | Forum |
| 10 | Hungarian Grand Prix | Hungaroring | July 26 – 28 | Forum |
| 11 | Belgian Grand Prix | Spa-Francorchamps | August 23 – 25 | Forum |
| 12 | Italian Grand Prix | Monza | September 6 – 8 | Forum |
| 13 | Singapore Grand Prix | Singapore | September 20 – 22 | Forum |
| 14 | Korean Grand Prix | Korean International Circuit | October 4 – 6 | Forum |
| 15 | Japanese Grand Prix | Suzuka | October 11 – 13 | Forum |
| 16 | Indian Grand Prix | Buddh International Circuit | October 25 – 27 | Forum |
| 17 | Abu Dhabi Grand Prix | Yas Marina | November 1 – 3 | Forum |
| 18 | United States Grand Prix | Circuit of the Americas | November 15 – 17 | Forum |
| 19 | Brazilian Grand Prix | Interlagos | November 22 – 24 | Forum |
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bielsafication said on 9th March 2013, 10:21
Is Japanese GP has been confirmed to be dropped for 2014 season?
William (@william) said on 10th March 2013, 3:09
On Wikipedia it hasn’t got the Japanese Formula One GP on there yet
trysmudford (@trysmudford) said on 9th March 2013, 16:33
Codemasters F1 2013 is going to have to offer some big realism changes if we’re down to 19 races and 11 teams…
Ben (@scuderia29) said on 9th March 2013, 20:46
were not going to miss one race
Paul Barrass (@damleda) said on 13th March 2013, 13:42
@prisoner-monkeys has the nose on this one. I’m very surprised that more hasn’t been made of it. The hotline is down, the dmz is being hardened, and the potential for extreme devestation is worse in Korea than anywhere else in the world, in as much as it is actively and purposefully pursuing a state led nuclear pre-emptive weapon and standpoint. Do not think that Korea is a laughable country for Americans to make fun of. Under a generation of crippling sanctions, the military rule (in practice, if not in principle) is enforced completely, and the military of N.Korea consume the vast majority of GDP. This is a country that does not care what any other country thinks, and nor does it care what damage it does to it’s own citizens as a result of it’s own actions. Iran must seem a pussycat in comparison when global leaders are discussing different nations. N.Korea haven’t even used the bargaining chip of nuclear weapons to even try to get sanctions lifted for goodness sake. They’ve developed a trump card as far as global diplomacy is concerned, and they’re not going to play it? Why not? If not to use it in anger??
I personally think that S.Korea is currently a much more dangerous place to be than Bahrain has ever been. Bahrain might have had localised violence and tens/hundreds of deaths, but S.Korea is under threat of nuclear attack for goodness sake, and the potential for hundreds of thousands of ongoing fatalities from a single strike.
I wouldn’t go there, even at the moment, unless I was being paid serious danger money, and in the event that rhetoric moves up a level, I just wouldn’t go there full stop.