FIA Approved 2016 Calendar
By Andrew Hooper
July 11 2015
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The FIA has
approved a record twenty one race calendar for the 2016 Formula 1 season.
The calendar sees quite a few changes with Russia moving from
October to April while Malaysia moves back from March to September, after
organisers requested a later date when it announced a new deal until 2018. |
APPROVED 2016 CALENDAR: |
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FIA Approved 2016 Calendar
Posted by: Williams F1 (IP Logged)
Date: 11/07/2015 06:31
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Re: FIA Approved 2016 Calendar
Posted by: GroveF1 (IP Logged)
Date: 11/07/2015 10:19
Joe Saward's take on it. I certainly agree with a lot of these comments he mentions
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Re: FIA Approved 2016 Calendar
Posted by: Gunk (IP Logged)
Date: 11/07/2015 16:59
Have you been to Baku, Grove?
I don't think many foreigners - mostly contractors - notice the politics there but . . . my god, it is armpit of the universe kinda place. Seems like every other person is drunk and every other woman is a ho.
Can't wait for Bernie to sign up Mogadishu and Tikrit.
I don't think many foreigners - mostly contractors - notice the politics there but . . . my god, it is armpit of the universe kinda place. Seems like every other person is drunk and every other woman is a ho.
Can't wait for Bernie to sign up Mogadishu and Tikrit.
Re: FIA Approved 2016 Calendar
Posted by: SehnKhan (IP Logged)
Date: 12/07/2015 01:25
I've already got my annual leave booked to hit up the Singapore / Malaysia back-to-back rounds. Will be my 4th visit to the Singapore GP, second to Sepang. Great part of the world to have a holiday, can't wait to start booking things.
Re: FIA Approved 2016 Calendar
Posted by: j-s (IP Logged)
Date: 12/07/2015 01:36
Good to have a more compact season.
Baku. Who cares. If it's a good race I don't mind. F1 struggles for a race in NYC but gets one in Baku. Take that, gringos!
Baku. Who cares. If it's a good race I don't mind. F1 struggles for a race in NYC but gets one in Baku. Take that, gringos!
Re: FIA Approved 2016 Calendar
Posted by: AlanJones (IP Logged)
Date: 14/07/2015 16:37
Well I understand that Baku is a hot potato at the moment. But so was Russia with the Olympic Games and Brazil with the World Cup. Still both events went on to be held.
Sport is not the way to advocate your means or to announce your believes to the world. Sports should be there to forget any problems that are present and to bring everyone to the same level: being a sports fan. That's why I don't mind Baku being on the calendar.
Sport is not the way to advocate your means or to announce your believes to the world. Sports should be there to forget any problems that are present and to bring everyone to the same level: being a sports fan. That's why I don't mind Baku being on the calendar.
Re: FIA Approved 2016 Calendar
Posted by: MansellsMoustache (IP Logged)
Date: 14/07/2015 17:04
Indeed, AJ, however, if it's another bog-standard Tilkedrome then it has no business on the calendar when great circuits elsewhere can't get a look in.
Re: FIA Approved 2016 Calendar
Posted by: Rumblestrip (IP Logged)
Date: 14/07/2015 17:36
Surely it isn't all standard Tilkedrome? I believe there are some very slow, narrow city corners (which won't suit our cars) from what I read some months ago
Re: FIA Approved 2016 Calendar
Posted by: AlanJones (IP Logged)
Date: 14/07/2015 18:56
Well signore 'stache I do not think, as Rumble pointed out as well, that Baku is a Tilkedrome. To me the ultimate wet dream of Tilke is Abu Dhabi. And Baku is nowhere near that. Its a fast flowing circuit around the ancient city center with some 90 degree bends at the end of the lap. Im very curious as it is a circuit layout not featured anywhere on the calendar before in recent history. And we all know, some peculiar track layouts do tend to have great racing in them.
Re: FIA Approved 2016 Calendar
Posted by: crusty_bread (IP Logged)
Date: 15/07/2015 11:30
I like the look of some of the fast sweepers too. The course is a long one: close to 4 miles, which for a street course could be quite a mission; I like the idea that every lap is a journey and around an ancient city I have never seen, in a country I have never seen, on the shores of a sea I have never seen, it all smacks of adventure, if you totally ignore pragmatics, fans attending and politics. Hell. I'm a TV fan these days: just go race...
Re: FIA Approved 2016 Calendar
Posted by: Rumblestrip (IP Logged)
Date: 16/07/2015 19:03
What I cannot understand is how Bernie thinks the European Grand Prix can be held in what, according to my atlas, is Asia? It's the second country to the east of Asia Minor, for goodness sake. When I studied geography Istanbul was the meeting place of the two continents (and Turkey tenuously claimed to be European due to lying athwart the Golden Horn). All of geography seems to be being rewritten recently in some strange scramble to call everywhere within three hours airtime of Europe as Europe, a bit like estate agents trying to describe North Cricklewood as Hampstead Borders. Wicked Uncle B might as well have held the European GP in Shanghai, albeit with fewer opportunities for bungs.
Re: FIA Approved 2016 Calendar
Posted by: j-s (IP Logged)
Date: 17/07/2015 03:56
Quote:Rumblestrip
What I cannot understand is how Bernie thinks the European Grand Prix can be held in what, according to my atlas, is Asia?
I'm sure Baku government is paying handsomely for that title...
I live on the other side of the planet and those caucasus countries have always intrigued me. Muslim, at the soviet-iranian-turkish crossroads, always a pawn of the bigger empires that surround them... it's just a place that is so utterly beyond my life experience that I can't even begin to make sense of it. I'd love to visit!
Re: FIA Approved 2016 Calendar
Posted by: AlanJones (IP Logged)
Date: 17/07/2015 05:38
Rumble, I do have to tell off your geographic skills. Azerbaijan is the most eastern part of the European continent. It inherited this as it seperated from Russia during the fall of the communistic regime of the USSR.
Also Baku held the very famous inaugural European Games just last month. Hardly anyone has seen anything of it. But hey, it was European wasn't it?
Also Baku held the very famous inaugural European Games just last month. Hardly anyone has seen anything of it. But hey, it was European wasn't it?
Re: FIA Approved 2016 Calendar
Posted by: crusty_bread (IP Logged)
Date: 17/07/2015 09:08
It must be European. It takes part in the Eurovision Song Contest.
I was always told Europe ended at the Urals, though I was never convinced. I guess the logic is, you can connect Azerbaijan with Russia and Russia with the rest of Europe. So it's claim comes from being north of Saudi Arabia and west of the Urals, but for someone in Western Europe it sure seems different.
Still, I don't see why they have any more to do with Japan, Yemen and Indonesia than Ireland, Norway and Austria so I guess it's fair game. Europe has always been tiny, Asia massive, so maybe Europe needs to loosen up a bit? If Alexander the Great and the Romans wanted it, and if it's neighbouring country wants to name itself after England's patron saint, then i suppose it's not quite as left field as it sounds.
I was always told Europe ended at the Urals, though I was never convinced. I guess the logic is, you can connect Azerbaijan with Russia and Russia with the rest of Europe. So it's claim comes from being north of Saudi Arabia and west of the Urals, but for someone in Western Europe it sure seems different.
Still, I don't see why they have any more to do with Japan, Yemen and Indonesia than Ireland, Norway and Austria so I guess it's fair game. Europe has always been tiny, Asia massive, so maybe Europe needs to loosen up a bit? If Alexander the Great and the Romans wanted it, and if it's neighbouring country wants to name itself after England's patron saint, then i suppose it's not quite as left field as it sounds.
Re: FIA Approved 2016 Calendar
Posted by: Mr. Pink (IP Logged)
Date: 17/07/2015 10:22
Georgia and Azerbaijan are the border states of Europe. Hell even part of Kazakhstan is in Europe.
The problem here is that we perceive Europe by EU and its western countries like Germany, France, Italy, ... and not like a continent.
To me, those eastern countries have nothing in common with what we "westerners" call Europe.
Sir Frank: "It's what we do, we love doing it. It's like oxygen, it fixes you".
The problem here is that we perceive Europe by EU and its western countries like Germany, France, Italy, ... and not like a continent.
To me, those eastern countries have nothing in common with what we "westerners" call Europe.
Sir Frank: "It's what we do, we love doing it. It's like oxygen, it fixes you".
Re: FIA Approved 2016 Calendar
Posted by: Duffer (IP Logged)
Date: 17/07/2015 16:15
What you call Europe is irrelevant. The border is relevant.
Re: FIA Approved 2016 Calendar
Posted by: Rumblestrip (IP Logged)
Date: 17/07/2015 20:29
Quote:Mr. Pink
The problem here is that we perceive Europe by EU and its western countries like Germany, France, Italy, ... and not like a continent.
Yes I think that is very true, certainly for me, and it is probably one of the insular consequences of the Cold War.
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