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We are racing again! Breakdown of revised international motorsport calendar

Michele Lupini12.06.2020

It is time! With certain series like NASCAR and Indycar already racing, the second half of 2020 is set to explode into a race fest like never before with Formula 1 and Formula 2 kick starting their season and much more!

Race fans will challenged what to watch when as all hell breaks loose from the first week of July as most international series fight to make up lost ground with hybrid calendars and back-to back racing for most of the rest of the year.

Starting with Formula 1, an eight-round calendar with some spectator-free, other limited attendance and perhaps even a regular race weekend or two scattered in, along with a couple of double-headers split by a week at single circuits, will see the season through to the first week of September. It starts with two grands Prix at Red Bull Ring on 5 and 12 July before heading to Hungary, another double header at Silverstone, Spain, Belgium and Italy.

All those dates will feature Formula 1, 2 and 3 in regular race programmes. Additional rounds are still to be confirmed with Mugello and Bahrain allegedly looking good.

The 2019-20 World Endurance Championship resumes at Spa on 15 August, before the Le Mans 24 hour three months later than usual on 19-20 Sep, and Bahrain is also confirmed for November. The 2020 Intercontinental GT Championship likewise has three races confirmed with the Indianapolis 8 Hour on 4 October, the Spa 24 Hour 24-25 October and the 21 November Kyalami 9 Hour and don’t forget the standalone Nürburgring 24 Hour before any of those on 26-27 September.

German Touring Cars have taken a similar approach to F1 with a calendar including a few double-headers a week apart at certain venues, but that action starts at the Norisring on the 11 July weekend, before Spa-Francorchamps first weekend August and two Lausitzring rounds on the 16 and 23 August weekends as part of a 10-race calendar set to take in seven racetracks.

Indycar has already commenced its season behind closed doors, with a full calendar to follow starting with the Independence Day Indy Grand Prix followed by Road America and Iowa over the next two weeks and Mid Ohio on 9 August. August must then pretend it is May through to the Indy 500 on the 23rd...

The IMSA sportscar season resumes with a pair races back at Daytona on 4 July and then Sebring two weeks later, then Road America and Virginia in August, with the Sebring 12-hour rescheduled for October. NASCAR has also been back on the go for two weeks already, with three races scheduled a month through to August and beyond.

Off track, while Dakar today confirmed its 2012 dates over the regular 3-15 January timeframe once again in Saudi Arabia, the World Rally Championship appears to be struggling to sort its Covid calendar after Rally GB this week became the fifth casualty of the original 2020 plan. Turkey appears to remain on track in September, Germany in October and Japan late in November with several European Championship rounds now being considered to bolster the presently depleted 2020 schedule.

World Rallycross has an eight-round calendar drafted and seemingly set to go starting in Sweden 22-23 August, before Poland a month later and then a wild October with three rounds in three weeks in Belgium, Portugal and Spain and a two-week gap to Abu Dhabi, and then Germany mid-December. South Africa is postponed to 2021, but that busy October brings a unique challenge to this robust form of racing.

On two wheels, MotoGP has confirmed a busy calendar, also with several double-headers a week apart starting at Jerez 19 and 26 July before taking in three rounds a month through to end October. There are a couple of dates early in November too, while four further rounds remain subject to confirmation.

Of course all these dates remain more or less fluid pending regional pandemic status, travel restrictions and much more, but right now it appears that following the biggest racing drought since World War 2, international motorsport is set to explode back into action and squeeze as many of the lost races into the remaining sox months of the year.

It also remains to be seen how many teams and competitors turn up to race, and how much unforeseen lockdown and travel issues will affect the action, but on the face of it, race fans are in for a treat like never before, and perhaps never again as the 2020 race season plays a challenging game of catch-up.

Better you get that diary out now, cross off every Sunday and fill in the info below. It is time!

Provisional Revised International Race Calendar at 11 June 2020

Formula 1 (including F2 and F3)

  1. 05 July: Austria, Red Bull Ring
  2. 12 July: Steiermark, Red Bull Ring
  3. 19 July: Hungary, Hungaroring,
  4. 02 August: Britain Silverstone
  5. 09 August: F1 70th Anniversary, Silverstone
  6. 16 August: Spain, Barcelona
  7. 30 August: Belgium, Spa-Francorchamps
  8. 06 September: Italy, Monza

World Endurance Championship

  1. 15 Aug: Belgium, Spa-Francorchamps
  2. 19-20 Sep: Le Mans 24 hour
  3. 21 Nov: Bahrain

Intercontinental GT

  1. 04 Oct: Indianapolis 8 Hour
  2. 24-25 Oct: Spa 24 Hour
  3. 19-21 Nov: Kyalami 9 Hour

Nürburgring 24 Hour

  1. 26-27 September Nürburgring

DTM German Touring Cars

  1. 11-12 Jul: Norisring
  2. 01-02 Aug: Spa-Francorchamps
  3. 15-16 Aug: Lausitzring 1
  4. 22-23 Aug: Lausitzring 2
  5. 05-06 Sep: Assen
  6. 12-13 Sep: Nurburgring GP
  7. 19-20 Sep: Nurburgring Short
  8. 10-11 Oct: Zolder 1
  9. 17-18 Oct: Zolder 2
  10. 07-08 Nov: Hockenheim

Indycar (to end-August)

  1. 04 Jul: Indianapolis Grand Prix
  2. 10 Jul: Road America
  3. 18 Jul: Iowa
  4. 09 Aug: Mid-Ohio
  5. 23 Aug: Indy 500

IMSA (to end-August)

  1. 04 Jul: Daytona
  2. 18 Jul: Sebring
  3. 02 Aug: Road America
  4. 23 Aug: Virginia

NASCAR (to end August)

  1. 14 Jun: Homestead
  2. 21 Jun: Talladega
  3. 28 Jun: Pocono
  4. 05 Jul: Indianapolis
  5. 11 Jul: Kentucky
  6. 19 Jul: Loudon
  7. 09 Aug: Michigan
  8. 16 Aug: Watkins Glen

  9. World Rally Championship
  10. 25-27 Sep: Turkey
  11. 16-18 Oct: Germany
  12. 20-22 Nov: Japan

World Rally Cross

  1. 22-23 Aug: Sweden
  2. 19-20 Sep: Poland
  3. 02-04 Oct: Belgium
  4. 10-11 Oct: Portugal
  5. 17-18 Oct: Spain
  6. 30-31 Oct: Abu Dhabi
  7. 12-13 Dec: Germany

Dakar

  1. 03-15 Jan: Saudi Arabia

Moto GP

  1. 19 Jul: Spain, Jerez
  2. 26 Jul: Andalucía, Jerez
  3. 9 Aug: Czech Republic, Brno
  4. 16 Aug: Austria, Red Bull Ring
  5. 23 Aug: Styria, Red Bull Ring
  6. 13 Sep: San Marino, Misano
  7. 20 Sep: Emilia Romagna, Misano
  8. 27 Sep: Catalunya, Barcelona
  9. 11 Oct: France, Le Mans
  10. 18 Oct: Aragón
  11. 25 Oct: Teruel, Aragón
  12. 08 Nov: Europe, Valencia
  13. 15 Nov: Valencia

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