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Formula One lost all four races this season in the Americas due to the COVID-19 pandemic on Friday (July 24) and added 3 European races, former favorites Imola and Nurburgring, to the calendar.
While the big prizes scheduled in the past in Canada, Texas, Mexico and Brazil have been cancelled, Formula One said in a statement that Portimao of Portugal will host a race for the first time.
Cancellations raise the total race count from the original schedule from 2020 to 11. Other COVID victims include Australia, France, Monaco, the Netherlands, Azerbaijan, Singapore and Japan.
The revised schedule now includes thirteen rounds, with Formula One aiming for a reduced championship of 15 to 18 with final races in Bahrain and Abu Dhabi in mid-December.
Fifteen big prizes is the minimum required to comply with TV contracts.
China’s postponed career in Shanghai, Vietnam is also expected to be cancelled and the return to Sepang in Malaysia has been reported.
Formula One, whose advertising rights are maintained through the US company Liberty Media, said he hoped to return to America next season.
The United States had a total of more than four million coronavirus infections on Thursday since the first U.S. case documented in January, according to a Reuters count.
Texas, which plans to host the U.S. Grand Prix at the Austin circuit of the Americas on October 25, one of the states most affected by the coronavirus resurgence.
Brazil, with a total of nearly 2.3 million cases shown, has the worst global COVID-19 epidemic outside the United States, while Mexico ranks fourth in the world in terms of deaths.
Formula One has stated that the Nurburgring will host the Eifel Grand Prix, named after the German region, in October, providing the Mercedes champions with a home race.
The Portuguese Grand Prix will take place on 25 October at the Algarve circuit, the country’s first race since 1996, and Imola will host the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix on 1 November, giving Italy 3 races for the first time.
The others are in Monza and Mugello, the latter owned by Ferrari and which will host the Grand Prix of the World Championship of the Italian national team in September.
The only other case in which a country organized three races in the same 1982 season, when the United States had a Grand Prix in Long Beach, Detroit and Las Vegas.
Imola has already hosted the Italian Grand Prix in 1980 and the San Marino Grand Prix from 1981 to 2006. Three-time world champion Ayrton Senna died there in 1994 while driving for Williams.
The former Nurburgring, a standout before World War II for grand prix racing, and the transformed circuit that was last presented at the Formula One World Championships in 2013. The circuit went into insolvency in 2012 and then replaced the property in 2014.
Throughout its history, the rural circuit has hosted races called the Grand Prix of Germany, Europe and Luxembourg.
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