The FIA world council met yesterday. The calendar should be approved now (or not).
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The FIA world council met yesterday. The calendar should be approved now (or not).
Should we expect an announcement today then?
The FIA approved the Singapore race for F1 as the first night race in F1 history yesterday, per AR1. When are they scheduled to discuss/approve the CC schedule if it has been submitted?
apparently... they meet last week in October. CC schedule and "superleague formula" schedule should both be up for approval that week.
Bob, do we know for sure if CC has submitted one? I remember your post on it that listed seven events (including Vegas, which I don't think will happen), and I couldn't name any more than you did. Certainly CC knows the deals they're making better than us, but.....
theres been no official statement to say it has, but from interviews with cc officials you can gather that it is with the fia and approval is all we are waiting for before an announcement.
I would expect a schedule announcement first week of November. if not certainly before mexico. If we don't get a schedule before mexico i would be worried.
As for the dates i posted, they are the confirmed ones. They were either announced when the ALMS schedule was and confirmed as double headers with Champ Car or confirmed by ticket renewals etc. Vegas date i posted was on the vegas website, but has since been removed, hence the speculation around the event.
You can work out what the schedule will look like. an educated guess would give you something like this:-
6th April - Vegas (originally confirmed on website but no longer there)
20th April - Long Beach (Confirmed)
27 April - Houston (Confirmed)
20 May - Laguna Seca (Confirmed)
3rd June - Euro 1 (possibly nurburgring)
8 June - Euro 2 (Belgium or another)
22 June - Cleveland
29 June Mt. Tremblant
6 July Toronto (Confirmed)
20 July Edmonton (Confirmed)
10 August - Road America (Confirmed)
31 August - Euro 3 (UK, France, Greece?)
7 Septemebr - Assen (speculation based on dates mentioned by the track at this years round)
12 October - Dubai/Barhain/China
19 October - Sufers Paradise
9 November - Mexico
Items in bold are confirmed dates. The rest is of course all speculation.
That would elave out Portland. But they could move china/dubai/bahrain back to after the surfers round and have portland in mid-September if they were to keep it. Or they could keep it in its currentl slot and have just oen euro trip.
We'll know for sure in a week or two ;)
It has been announced elsewhere that the schedules have been approved for all FIA member series, including CCWS, but that it has not been released yet...we should know soon.Quote:
Originally Posted by BobGarage
according to FIA website the world motorsport council met yesterday. their news item only confirms schedules for FIA run series. I guess we'll have to wait for CC to make the announcement for their schedule now....
Time will tell, but I cannot imagine that all the non-North American dates are etched in granite, signed, sealed and delivered and if, in fact, the FIA has a CC schedule, I would think there are some races in the "China" mode of '07. IMO, some reasonable reporter should call the FIA and ask what the status of the CC schedule is.
If I had a contact point, I'd do that myself...