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[McLaren Fan]

From autosport.com:

By Steven English Wednesday, November 5th 2008, 14:52 GMT

The Chinese Grand Prix will become the third round of the 2009 world championship under the latest version of next season's Formula One calendar.

An amended schedule was agreed at a meeting of the World Motor Sport Council in Paris today.

The Shanghai race moves from its previous October date to 19 April, with the Bahrain Grand Prix consequently moving back one week.

The alteration allows the championship to finish earlier, as the Brazil and Abu Dhabi races have now been moved forward by a fortnight, with the latter now scheduled for 1 November.

Despite talks between Montreal officials and Bernie Ecclestone, it appears there has been no progress regarding the future of the Canadian Grand Prix, so the calendar remains at 17 races.

2009 FIA Formula One World Championship

29/3 Australia
5/4 Malaysia
19/4 China
26/4 Bahrain
10/5 Spain
24/5 Monaco
7/6 Turkey
21/6 Great Britain
12/7 Germany
26/7 Hungary
23/8 Europe (Valencia)
30/8 Belgium
13/9 Italy
27/9 Singapore
4/10 Japan
18/10 Brazil
1/11 Abu Dhabi

[Kate]

Looking forward to Abu Dhabi, the track looks pretty mint. A new GP is always exciting too.

[f1maniac95]

I calendar looks alright apart from no Canada and France but I think Brazil should be the seasons final. Also why has China been moved to April it was fine where it was because it was nice having that track near the end of the season.

[scotty]

That's logistically pretty damn stupid. So much for cost cutting in F1.

[KyrosV]

It made sence to have Japan, singapore and china next to each other??? what genius figured out this calender

[prozac26]

It made sence to have Japan, singapore and china next to each other??? what genius figured out this calender

Yea, I don't get it.

[big ron]

It made sence to have Japan, singapore and china next to each other??? what genius figured out this calender

Yea, I don't get it.

Japan and China should, logistically, be together, but Singapore is a fair hike from there. It would be much better round about the time of Malaysia.

I still think its a huge shame to lose Canada. It's a great place to go and watch as you can sit fairly close to the track, it's a brilliant party town, the locals love F1, tickets are usually sold out, etc. China is just soulless by comparison.

[scousers on tour 2008]

It made sence to have Japan, singapore and china next to each other??? what genius figured out this calender

Yea, I don't get it.

Japan and China should, logistically, be together, but Singapore is a fair hike from there. It would be much better round about the time of Malaysia.

I still think its a huge shame to lose Canada. It's a great place to go and watch as you can sit fairly close to the track, it's a brilliant party town, the locals love F1, tickets are usually sold out, etc. China is just soulless by comparison.

Maybe china has been moved to then so next week they can change the calander again and replace china with canada.

this is just wishfull thinking cos i loved canada this year (apart from the result) i had already booked to go again before it got taken off...what a shame it was fantastic event,great place ,great people

[prozac26]

It made sence to have Japan, singapore and china next to each other??? what genius figured out this calender

Yea, I don't get it.

Japan and China should, logistically, be together, but Singapore is a fair hike from there. It would be much better round about the time of Malaysia.

I still think its a huge shame to lose Canada. It's a great place to go and watch as you can sit fairly close to the track, it's a brilliant party town, the locals love F1, tickets are usually sold out, etc. China is just soulless by comparison.

I agree, but why go back and forth, go in logical order. From far east to west or vice versa.

Looking at the original post, I don't see where they can squeeze Canada in.

[Rorschach]

The schedule looks weaker with each passing season. The sport is being killed off slowly. Sorry if this offends but I can't wait for Bernie and Max to f*** off and if the quickest way is for them to drop dead of a heart attack, then fine with me.

They are just clueless.

[scousers on tour 2008]

It made sence to have Japan, singapore and china next to each other??? what genius figured out this calender

Yea, I don't get it.

Japan and China should, logistically, be together, but Singapore is a fair hike from there. It would be much better round about the time of Malaysia.

I still think its a huge shame to lose Canada. It's a great place to go and watch as you can sit fairly close to the track, it's a brilliant party town, the locals love F1, tickets are usually sold out, etc. China is just soulless by comparison.

I agree, but why go back and forth, go in logical order. From far east to west or vice versa.

Looking at the original post, I don't see where they can squeeze Canada in.

they managed to put it in for the last 30 years with no problems

[Denthúl]

It made sence to have Japan, singapore and china next to each other??? what genius figured out this calender

Yea, I don't get it.

Japan and China should, logistically, be together, but Singapore is a fair hike from there. It would be much better round about the time of Malaysia.

I still think its a huge shame to lose Canada. It's a great place to go and watch as you can sit fairly close to the track, it's a brilliant party town, the locals love F1, tickets are usually sold out, etc. China is just soulless by comparison.

I agree, but why go back and forth, go in logical order. From far east to west or vice versa.

Looking at the original post, I don't see where they can squeeze Canada in.

they managed to put it in for the last 30 years with no problems

Well, they were paying their fees for the majority of that time with no problems, so you can see why.

[Hanwombat]

China friggin' third race in!

[7UpJordan]

Well at least we can get the current worst F1 track out of the way, but it's got pretty "good company" with it in the form of Malaysia and Bahrain which are also Tilke creations which makes a bit of a sour looking trio of races.

Speaking of Malaysia, it's almost 10 years already since the very first race there!!

[prozac26]

It made sence to have Japan, singapore and china next to each other??? what genius figured out this calender

Yea, I don't get it.

Japan and China should, logistically, be together, but Singapore is a fair hike from there. It would be much better round about the time of Malaysia.

I still think its a huge shame to lose Canada. It's a great place to go and watch as you can sit fairly close to the track, it's a brilliant party town, the locals love F1, tickets are usually sold out, etc. China is just soulless by comparison.

I agree, but why go back and forth, go in logical order. From far east to west or vice versa.

Looking at the original post, I don't see where they can squeeze Canada in.

they managed to put it in for the last 30 years with no problems

Yea, but you also had US in there for a while too. And the rest of the races were spaced out better to fit in North America.