Filed under: Motorsports
http://hss-prod.hss.aol.com/hss/storage/adam/f2230d8c757ba7289f52bf0ee6c0dcbb/rbr-nyc.jpg
Several months typically pass between when the FIA releases the provisional calendar for the next year’s Formula One World Championship and when it releases the final version. The gap is usually bridged by a fair share of back-and-forth speculation over which races will make the cut, but this year’s has looked even more feverish than usual from where we sit, principally for one reason: namely, that the provisional calendar included a new race in New Jersey.
After much speculation, the FIA has released the final calendar for the 2014 Formula One World Championship (along with a number of other series it sanctions). While the provisional calendar had a whopping 22 races on it, the final version has been whittled down to 19. And as you might have guessed, Jersey didn’t make the cut.
New races in Austria and Russia are included, but the proposed expansion race in Mexico joins Jersey’s fate, along with the Korean Grand Prix, which has been held at Yeongam for the past four years but won’t be held next year. F1 fans in North America needn’t worry, though: those who might have enjoyed the Mexican Grand Prix won’t have far to go to enjoy the United States Grand Prix (which is still on the calendar for November 2, 2014, in Austin, Texas) and those in the northeast can head up to Montreal for the Canadian Grand Prix on June 8.
You can view the full release below from the last meeting of the FIA’s World Motor Sport Council this year to see the final calendar for F1 as well as the world championships for touring cars, endurance racing, rallycross, Formula E and Formula 3. But for North American racing fans, the parts you need to know about are the F1 races in Montreal and Austin, the 6 Hours of the Circuit of the Americas (also in Austin), the WTCC race in Sonoma, the new rallycross event in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, and the Formula E races to take place in LA and Miami.Continue reading New Jersey cut from final 2014 Formula One calendar
New Jersey cut from final 2014 Formula One calendar originally appeared on Autoblog on Thu, 05 Dec 2013 03:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Permalink | Email this | Commentshttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=3sgieiU737k:88dvtq5Mkt4:wF9xT3WuBAs http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=3sgieiU737k:88dvtq5Mkt4:V_sGLiPBpWU
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogsinc/autoblog/~4/3sgieiU737k