Post by ChrisM on May 14, 2021 20:45:20 GMT
Turkey has been cancelled, to be replaced by a second race in Austria at the same track, so we will get a Styrian Grand Prix and an Austrian Grand Prix at the Red Bull Ring for the second year in a row. The date of the French Grand Prix isd also being altered; more info with the dates here:
www.formula1.com/en/latest/article.breaking-2021-f1-calendar-reshuffled-as-turkey-drops-off-and-extra-austria.3TufMtNBGTB4ALrfGaiN9e.html
Covid travel restrictions are the reason - I do wonder if it is right that top-level sports still take place around the world with all the associated air travel between countries when most of us can't cross our own borders. We will miss Canada for the second year running; It's been well publicised that the track was built on the Isle Notre-Dame which is a man-made island - but I only discovered last week that the island was made from all the spoil when Montreal's underground transit system was built... that's a lot of earth removed from under the city !
www.formula1.com/en/latest/article.breaking-2021-f1-calendar-reshuffled-as-turkey-drops-off-and-extra-austria.3TufMtNBGTB4ALrfGaiN9e.html
Covid travel restrictions are the reason - I do wonder if it is right that top-level sports still take place around the world with all the associated air travel between countries when most of us can't cross our own borders. We will miss Canada for the second year running; It's been well publicised that the track was built on the Isle Notre-Dame which is a man-made island - but I only discovered last week that the island was made from all the spoil when Montreal's underground transit system was built... that's a lot of earth removed from under the city !
) that the reason there are 23 races this year is because they expect some to be cancelled and so they will still have an adequate number of races to run a 'proper' season.
