Get the latest on next year’s F1 calendar The Vietnam Grand Prix, which was supposed to take place for the first time in 2020 but was cancelled due to the pandemic, will not go ahead in 2021. It intended to hold the race in May, but no further details have been confirmed. In October 2019 F1 announced ‘agreement in principle’ to hold a race on a new circuit at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami. The first Saudi Arabian Grand Prix will take place on December 5th. What new races will be on the calendar? Miami had hoped to join the 2021 F1 calendarįormula 1 has confirmed a new night race will take place on the streets of Jeddah. Import the race dates to your preferred calendar via this link:Īdvert | Become a RaceFans supporter and go ad-free This will be updated when further details are issued. The dates for the 2021 races, tests and car launches announced so far have been added to the RaceFans F1 calendar. A single three-day test will be held at Bahrain International Circuit from March 12th to 14th. Pre-season testing has been reduced from six days to three for the 2021 championship. However other new races the sport aspired to hold in Miami, USA and Hanoi, Vietnam did not join the schedule as hoped. The Dutch Grand Prix, which was supposed to return at Zandvoort in 2020 but fell foul of the pandemic, was confirmed for a September date. The 73rd running of the world championship will also see the addition of a new race in Saudi Arabia on the streets of Jeddah. However no replacement was arranged for Japan’s round, meaning the final calendar was shortened to 22 races. The cancelled race in Australia was eventually replaced by F1’s first race in Qatar. The original calendar also included a race at an undetermined venue which, three weeks before the season was due to begin, was confirmed as the Autodromo do Algarve in Portugal. However the later cancellation of Singapore’s round of the world championship opened up a new space on the calendar which was taken by Turkey.Īfter the season began in Bahrain the championship raced at Imola in Italy, replacing China. An extra race in Austria was added instead. The Canadian round was originally replaced by a new race in Turkey, but within 16 days F1’s trip to Istanbul had also been called off as the rising Covid-19 infection rate led the British government to impose severe travel restrictions. These also included China, whose race was called off early in the season, Canada, Singapore and Japan – the latter coming despite the Tokyo Olympics going ahead while the country was in a statement of emergency. The Australian round was later cancelled, joining a host of other races beyond F1’s European heartland which were scratched from the schedule. The season began there on March 28th, following three days of testing at the same Bahrain International Circuit. The Australian Grand Prix was delayed until November, and Bahrain became the new opening race. The first of those had to be postponed, however. While the 2020 season had been heavily delayed and curtailed, from the outset F1 stated its intention of running a more normal schedule in 2021, albeit with a record-breaking 23 races.
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