2014 Calendar finalized

[woof]

No surprise that New Jersey, Korean and Mexico haven't made it.
Great shame that Abu Dhabi is the last race - it should always be Brazil or Japan.

2014 CALENDAR

March 16 Australia
March 30 Malaysia
April 6 Bahrain
April 20 China
May 11 Spain
May 25 Monaco
June 8 Canada
June 22 Austria
July 6 Great Britain
July 20 Germany (Hockenheim)
July 27 Hungary
August 24 Belgium
September 7 Italy
September 21 Singapore
October 5 Japan
October 12 Russia
November 2 USA
November 9 Brazil
November 23 Abu Dhabi

[Pwig]

Looking forward to Austria, great track

[Chrisgr31]

woof said:

Great shame that Abu Dhabi is the last race

Yes because on the earlier plans it was going to be in half term so I thought we could stay withj my briother in Dubai and drive down the road to the race. Those plans have now been foiled!

[Eric Mc]

Pwig said:

Looking forward to Austria, great track

It is nice to see Austria back. And the track situation is now so dire that the emaciated A1 Ring (or whatever its called this week) is actually looking like a good circuit now.

[Rick_1138]

Having driven the track a few times on Forza 5, its a dull, crappy place with too many technical turns. Brazil always gives a good show and is best for the last race. Especially as next year may be close so last race could be decider.

[24lemons]

Rick_1138 said:

Having driven the track a few times on Forza 5, its a dull, crappy place with too many technical turns. Brazil always gives a good show and is best for the last race. Especially as next year may be close so last race could be decider.

Brazil or Japan should be the last race IMO. Good tracks and passionate fans. Abu Dhabi is dull although it does have a pitlane that goes under the track which is interesting....or not. Getting rid of Korea is a good move, now get rid of China, Bahrain and Abu Dhabi and you'd have a half decent calendar

[Andurron]

Does anyone know which blithering idiot on the commission put Bahrain in between Malaysia and China? Aren't they supposed to be moving towards a more streamlined calendar?

[SmoothCriminal]

Why on earth would you want to get rid of China yes hardly any fans but the racing is always good for overtakes better than Hungbororing with its pole to flag race win and about 2 overtakes.

[Sam.F]

SmoothCriminal said:

Why on earth would you want to get rid of China yes hardly any fans but the racing is always good for overtakes better than Hungbororing with its pole to flag race win and about 2 overtakes.

Did you watch Hungary this year? It was a great race!

[Sam.F]

Pwig said:

Looking forward to Austria, great track

Presumably the new rules will slow the cars down enough that they aren't lapping in the sub-70sec range and spending the whole race tripping over lapped traffic.

[Justaredbadge]

Sam.F said:

Presumably the new rules will slow the cars down enough that they aren't lapping in the sub-70sec range and spending the whole race tripping over lapped traffic.

I watched the whole of the 1984 race on the old circuit the other night. It was a brilliant track that was totally different in character to the current one.


Also a very good race, classic Lauda and great to see him mount a challenge that took him about 15 laps to pressure piquet in to a mistake. Then Lauda turned up the wick and increased the gap to about 17 seconds iirc.

A rare mistake from Prost too.

[oyster]

woof said:

No surprise that New Jersey, Korean and Mexico haven't made it.
Great shame that Abu Dhabi is the last race - it should always be Brazil or Japan.

2014 CALENDAR

March 16 Australia
March 30 Malaysia
April 6 Bahrain
April 20 China
May 11 Spain
May 25 Monaco
June 8 Canada
June 22 Austria
July 6 Great Britain
July 20 Germany (Hockenheim)
July 27 Hungary
August 24 Belgium
September 7 Italy
September 21 Singapore
October 5 Japan
October 12 Russia
November 2 USA
November 9 Brazil
November 23 Abu Dhabi

So 2 Asian races make way for 2 more European races - I never thought I'd see that.

[Mashedpotatoes]

Sam.F said:

Pwig said:

Looking forward to Austria, great track

Presumably the new rules will slow the cars down enough that they aren't lapping in the sub-70sec range and spending the whole race tripping over lapped traffic.

I'm no maths expert but I don't think it matters if the fastest cars are lapping sub or plus 70 secs they will still lap the slower cars just as quickly. Due to the speed difference of the fastest to the slowest.

[007 VXR]

Sam.F said:

SmoothCriminal said:

Why on earth would you want to get rid of China yes hardly any fans but the racing is always good for overtakes better than Hungbororing with its pole to flag race win and about 2 overtakes.

Did you watch Hungary this year? It was a great race!

I did, from track side

[chevronb37]

I'm utterly devastated. We are in the early stages of planning a trip to Austin this year with a couple of friends. The draft calendar had permitted us to go to Texas Motor Speedway for NASCAR then down to Austin for the GP. Sadly moving the GP forward has scuppered that plan so it looks like I'll have to jump on a plane over to Phoenix if I want to see NASCAR. Gutted. Absolutely gutted.

[Lordbenny]

Rick_1138 said:

Having driven the track a few times on Forza 5, its a dull, crappy place with too many technical turns.

I have driven it a couple of times....In a real car! It's the business, very much like the Hungaroring, is amazing for spectators and is a very welcome return to the calendar unlike so many of these boring, uninspiring, unexciting road circuits.

[madbadger]

When do they announce who is showing which races?

[N0ddie]

Gaz. said:

January, same format as before, BBC get picks 1-3, Sky get picks 4-6 then they alternate odds and evens with Sky getting one more as there's 19 races so Sky get 10 races & BBC 9.

Technically Sky show all the sessions LIVE.

[madbadger]

Thanks Gaz.

BBC only for me.